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connielane at 10:43am on 24/09/2003
connielane at 10:43am on 24/09/2003New West Wing tonight! Yippee! Not that I can watch it, as I'll be busy writing community assessment papers. Oh well - that's what VCRs are for.
Just when I thought the H/Hers couldn't get any more desperate, now Athena has switched definitions of platonic on us. Instead of the common definition of "non-romantic, non-sexual," now she insists that we all see the classical definition (since JKR studied the classics at Exeter, after all) of Platonic ("transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal", as defined by American Heritage dictionary). Not that H/Hers have spent the last four years agreeing with us on the more common definition of the word platonic or anything. Not that they used that definition when shouting from the rooftops at us that "they are very platonic friends" only referred to the present tense and in no way precluded an H/Hr romance in the future.
And of course in the very same post, she goes on to say that H/Hr love is going to be of the "eros" variety, not "philos." WTF? She contradicted what she just said! Didn't she? By definition, "eros" is the complete opposite of "Platonic" (in the classical or in the common sense).
Man, I love R/Hr - where the world is simple and you don't have to have a degree in philosophy to understand plot or character motivation in a children's book.
Anyway, I'd better get back to my mailout at work.
One final sentiment about H/Hr before I go...
Just when I thought the H/Hers couldn't get any more desperate, now Athena has switched definitions of platonic on us. Instead of the common definition of "non-romantic, non-sexual," now she insists that we all see the classical definition (since JKR studied the classics at Exeter, after all) of Platonic ("transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal", as defined by American Heritage dictionary). Not that H/Hers have spent the last four years agreeing with us on the more common definition of the word platonic or anything. Not that they used that definition when shouting from the rooftops at us that "they are very platonic friends" only referred to the present tense and in no way precluded an H/Hr romance in the future.
And of course in the very same post, she goes on to say that H/Hr love is going to be of the "eros" variety, not "philos." WTF? She contradicted what she just said! Didn't she? By definition, "eros" is the complete opposite of "Platonic" (in the classical or in the common sense).
Man, I love R/Hr - where the world is simple and you don't have to have a degree in philosophy to understand plot or character motivation in a children's book.
Anyway, I'd better get back to my mailout at work.
One final sentiment about H/Hr before I go...
amused
(mystery)
I'll use a cut and make sure not to spoil it for you :)
Instead of the common definition of "non-romantic, non-sexual," now she insists that we all see the classical definition (since JKR studied the classics at Exeter, after all) of Platonic ("transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal", as defined by American Heritage dictionary).
Yes, because every 8-12 year old in the audience she was answering to has definitely studied classics at Exter, and has read the American Heritage dictionary. That would clearly be the right way to use to get the right message across to whom she was speaking. Yep.
(mystery)