novelistparty

Nolan is decidedly an artist who has an appreciation for and respect for cinema and the craft of film making, and he has a love for making films that are supposed to be strange, dreamlike, even nonlinear. which is hindered by the fact that he, strangely, seems completely uncreative and artistically bland.

incredible photo

do we think hes hitting the David on purpose?

was just mulling this over in the context of the idea of special ed because what i meant in my last post is most childrearing environments arent great at teaching reading comprehension, period, but what i just realized is also true is that teaching a 4 year old with a precocious vocabulary and fluency how to access higher reading comprehension, grammar, etymology, and composition is actually a completely different set of educational requirements than educating a freshman college class in the same. so unless the hyperlexic 4 year old is born into a HFA household with a literacy specialization, theyre facing a serious special education need that probably no one around them will be able to meet for at least ten years. the negative effect this must have (and did have, on me, for every relationship with an adult besides my parents) is substantial.

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

my high horse is actually awesome and fast like the wind

when i was younger i was so obsessed with being perfectly moral and now i've finally accepted i'm just as evil as everyone else is in the right circumstances

a child who is persistently alone & does not want to be alone does not learn that they on occasion have time to themselves during which they can do whatever they want, they learn that occasionally they will have time to themselves throughout which they will do nothing except exactly what they do not want to do - something that is synonymous with that duration of time. if they were being made to do some or other unpleasant thing, like hold their hand on a hot stove, that would not be synonymous with the duration of time, it would be something occupying that duration of time. when they are made ito be alone, the fact that they are alive & conscious is felt as a profound lack rather than the fundamental opportunity atop which all other opportunities are built, & the passage of time becomes something to be endured because it continually implies their continued existence & awareness. life for them then becomes organized not around exploration nor seeking enjoyment or fulfillment, but around strategies for continually enduring the fact that they exist