“What’s the capital of North Dakota?”

And I dunno Adrien, I really liked “Prospero’s Books”. It was an extended mediation/visual essay on my favourite Shakespeare play with a superb voice turning the pages for you.

But I’ll give you The Draughtsman’s Contract – a cool mathematically-plotted age of reason pyschosexual thriller and The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover – a bloody bawdy Jacobean drama coolly set in the roaring Thatcher years.

If only Greenaway had a translatable sense of humour, he could have made a fine fist out of Tristam Shandy.

I suggest we all write letters of outrage to the Fairfax Meejah: Rupert doesn’t care, and Kev is too busy.

What a gruesomely dishonest, disingenuous, paranoid piece of writing. Not to mention, like, barking.

As I have explained to you many times before, I have no interest in Donnelly and have not mentioned him. Does he highlight the agonistic nature of great art and the intertextuality of great art over at least the past 3,000 years?

She took on the job on the basis of not commenting on the day to day to running of the corporation according to memory. Her nasty attack on Jon Faine, an ABC employee, breaches that arrangement bigtime.

Why?

It’s easy to discard these figures as irrelevant, living in a parallel universe void of reason and logic.

Have we come full circle with this nonsense?

Janet is promising “A New Silence” – well, amen to that, sister!

You could always have a cultural policy that turned Australian culture into a lot of long, zany arguments over nearly nothing.

You don’t need a policy. We’ve already got the Internet.

Just to repeat something on-topic and important that habitually gets lost in the intense feelings around the arts-grants-applications subculture and its sub-subcultures: I don’t know about film funding, but in all artforms covered by the Departments for the Arts, there are no “sides” in this funding bizzo. As I’ve said at #136, it’s the artists’ fellow artists who distribute the dosh, at least in my experience (Vic, SA and Federal levels), with a steady turnover of membership on those decision-making boards and committees. The bureaucrats facilitate this process, but they do not make the money decisions.

Just sayin’.

I offer this fact not as an English lesson (much less as, ahem, recommended reading, though I do agree that Abrams is a worthy critic very much worth reading; I only offer English lessons when some bully is monstering other people over their “errors� and getting it wrong himself as well, or when, as in this case, the meaning was genuinely ambiguous and unclear) but in the spirit of providing clarificatory information.

‘Ahem’? What is this ‘ahem’? Perchance it means: you can’t cite a book ‘less you work at a Uni? Izzat right? Anyway maybe PC’s lecture about the meaning of inference (it should be imply apparently) is not an English lesson. Perhaps it refers to someone else but I can’t honestly say who. And after all that who was I bullying? Well here’s the answer:

On this thread, nobody (read the rest of the sentence; it’s not all about you), and on the comment you linked to, the person you were trashing.

And on this other thread what did by monstrous bullying consist of? Writing new lyrics to “Danny Boy” in furtherance of poking fun at someone who wrote new lyrics to “Danny Boy” in furtherance of poking fun at someone. Geez I’m a regular Amon Göth.
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I submit that this here’s a gang thang. Is like: we don’t like what you say senior so we gonna get together and kick you a beet.

“I only offer English lessons when some bully is monstering other people over their “errorsâ€? and getting it wrong himself as well, or when, as in this case, the meaning was genuinely ambiguous and unclear”

The key part is “or when, as in this case, the meaning was genuinely ambiguous and unclear”.