Comments on: Looking Up http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:45:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/#comment-1515 Francois Lachance Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:30:11 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=691#comment-1515 <p>Go ahead. Give in to Irony. After all it’s not cynicism. </p> Go ahead. Give in to Irony. After all it’s not cynicism.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/#comment-1514 KF Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:52:26 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=691#comment-1514 <p>Whoops.  Submitted without the URLs the first time.  Fixed now. </p> Whoops.  Submitted without the URLs the first time.  Fixed now.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/#comment-1513 KF Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:02:15 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=691#comment-1513 <p>Okay, granted, “when it rains, its pours” could conceivably be optimistic, if you were a farmer, perhaps, and really really needed rain.  Having just over the last couple of days watching <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0091288/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jean de Florette</a> and <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0091480/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Manon of the Spring</a>, that possibility <i>did</i> occur to me.  But right behind it, I started thinking about such rains in SoCal; when it pours, the topsoil gets washed away, which undoes the whole good-thingness of rain, farm-wise. </p> <p> And Francois?  Helen Keller?  Yes, there’s a model for optimism in the face of all sorts of worldly forces to the contrary—but it’s hard not to read that phrase as wildly ironic, all things considered… </p> Okay, granted, “when it rains, its pours” could conceivably be optimistic, if you were a farmer, perhaps, and really really needed rain.  Having just over the last couple of days watching Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, that possibility did occur to me.  But right behind it, I started thinking about such rains in SoCal; when it pours, the topsoil gets washed away, which undoes the whole good-thingness of rain, farm-wise.

And Francois?  Helen Keller?  Yes, there’s a model for optimism in the face of all sorts of worldly forces to the contrary—but it’s hard not to read that phrase as wildly ironic, all things considered…

]]> By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/#comment-1512 Francois Lachance Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:55:54 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=691#comment-1512 <p>Made me do a bit of searching ... </p> <p> Helen Keller is reputed to have said “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” </p> Made me do a bit of searching …

Helen Keller is reputed to have said “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”

]]> By: ogged http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/looking-up/#comment-1511 ogged Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:36:13 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=691#comment-1511 <p>"When sorrows come...” No, wait.  Are we sure that “When it rains, it pours” <i>isn’t</i> optimistic? </p> “When sorrows come…” No, wait.  Are we sure that “When it rains, it pours” isn’t optimistic?

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