does anyone else get days
when they are almost paralysed by non-specific nostalgia? You know, when even the air and time itself breathes like the past and you can't shake the feeling that time isn't linear but more like a pile of knotted string?

Or is it just me? It's seriously getting in the way of me being productive, today
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 13:31, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

You should read "Torpid smoke" by Nabokov.
Hits the nail right on the head, it does.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 13:59, Reply)

I am an uncultured thickoid and have never read anything by him
is it a novel, or a short story? I shall search my local library
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)

It's a short story, can't remember how many pages but not many!
Well worth the tiny effort required!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:55, Reply)

it's not the effort so much
as trying to find it. Any idea which compilation it's in?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 15:02, Reply)

I'll ponder that, probably have a look on the bookcase when I get home...
But I think the collection is just called "the stories of Vladimir Nabokov".
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 15:25, Reply)

Have you been watching too much Dr Who again?

(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:10, Reply)

There is no such thing as too much dr who

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:11, Reply)

Well, that depends
Is it just me or has the second half of this current series been a bit shit so far?
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)

that last one should have been scarier

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

And a bit more imaginative
I grow weary of these new-fangled ideas on devoting a whole episode to character development not-at-all-subtly buried in a slightly puerile story.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:17, Reply)

yeah - I thought the whole FAITH WILL DESTROY YOU!
thing a bit heavy handed, like a teenager who thinks they are deep and clever.

Not that I didn't enjoy it, mind. Dr Who would have to get pretty shit before I didn't
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Well, I must admit I was nonplussed by this one.
And the one before that, in the quarantine place, I gave up on after twenty minutes or so.

I also don't hold out too much hope for tonight's one, having spotted that James Corden's in it again.

Kind of a shame, I honestly thought the first half of the series was really good. Much darker, and a fantastic heap of headfuck building up with all the OMG-they've-killed-him-Amy's-not-real-WTF-she's-their-daughter? They're really going to have to pull it out of the bag to save this half of it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

i quite liked the quarantine one, but yeah, they've not been the best,
I think there was more they could have done with it. It's like they aren't quite running at full power
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)

I think they're building up to an epic season finale
My money says that either the doctor who gets killed is the 'flesh' one, or the real doctor dies and teh 'flesh' one replaces him.
Either way, it had better be good.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:37, Reply)

it is notable that the sets have been
comparatively simple these last two episodes (ie stuck in a very straight forward looking place), so perhaps they've saved their budget
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:46, Reply)

only since I was 4

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)