The deleted scenes were great but I can see why many of them were cut.
Malcolm in the Meditation Rm. Modelled on a scene from Marx Brothers movie, with lots of people piling in and out of a room.
Is it really out today?
Is there something unusual about that?
Looks like a scanned page from the book to me but it's a nice bit of prose, thought I'm now wondering what he's got to say about Richard Dawkins...
I really like the idea of God. The type of soot-souled rationalists such as Richard Dawkins who want to reduce all our waking experience to mere ascertainable facts seem to me like the sort of party poopers who at the start of a game of musical chairs would stand up and shout: 'This really isn't going to work. There's one less chair than there are people.'
The type of soot-souled rationalists such as Richard Dawkins who want to reduce all our waking experience to mere ascertainable facts seem to me like the sort of party poopers who at the start of a game of musical chairs would stand up and shout: 'This really isn't going to work. There's one less chair than there are people.'Rationalists are like blocks of cement. Useful that they're there, but you don't really want to play with them. The fact is that if you try taking away irrationality from human experience, you're not left with much experience at all. Football matches, being simply expensive afternoons spent in the cold to watch 20 fashion models and two goalkeepers kick a bladder around to everyone's faint disappointment, are entirely irrational. As are novels, ballet, independent cinema, saluting, clapping at the end of a concert, wedding ceremonies, maypole dancing, steam fairs, stamp collecting, tiaras, YouTubing videos of yourself setting fire to a cat and ties. Yet all of these things, apart from maypole dancing, are things that would make the world a far less interesting place than it is now if they disappeared.
I'm disappointed in Iannucci for this. I don't think there are many rationalists who would decry people doing fun things because they're "pointless". Completely missed the whole point of rationalism in fact.
Political satire In the Loop, which had its European premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, was the big winner of the night, scooping each of the three awards for which it was shortlisted, including the acting in film Bafta for Peter Capaldi. Armando Iannucci, who won the director category and a second Bafta, with Jesse Armstrong and Simon Blackwell, for writing the film, said: “I’m overwhelmed and really did not expect this. I thought it would be great if we won one but two is amazing.”
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