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Making a qualified guess from the material I found I say, that the vitriolic acid bottle in the Jules and Jim movie must be a kind of medicament.
As a note I looked on the net for "Jules and Jim ". From what I found it sounds like a very French movie to me. Especially the way the woman is portraited. Not that there is anything wrong with that and perhaps I only notice it because I am myself from the "cold" north where women are more often like sunshine than they are like fire *winks*
As a note I looked on the net for "Jules and Jim ". From what I found it sounds like a very French movie to me. Especially the way the woman is portraited. Not that there is anything wrong with that and perhaps I only notice it because I am myself from the "cold" north where women are more often like sunshine than they are like fire *winks*
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Selwyn ,
You write beautifully. I enjoyed your fire and sunshine comparison. Thank you for the information. I am leaning toward the ether-type compound or perhaps the character was a dressmaker or milliner who needed the compound for dyeing cloth or making felt. Thank you so much. Jules and Jim wasn't that great of a movie...just the vitriolic acid intrigued me. Thank you again for your response.
Zara
Selwyn ,
You write beautifully. I enjoyed your fire and sunshine comparison. Thank you for the information. I am leaning toward the ether-type compound or perhaps the character was a dressmaker or milliner who needed the compound for dyeing cloth or making felt. Thank you so much. Jules and Jim wasn't that great of a movie...just the vitriolic acid intrigued me. Thank you again for your response.
Zara
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You are very welcome
And I thank you for your kind words about my writing.
And I thank you for your kind words about my writing.
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Ooo, baby...
"...perhaps I only notice it because I am myself from the "cold" north where women are more often like sunshine than they are like fire *winks*"
****** How old are you, again, Selwyn ? :)
Anyway, thanks for all the in-depth research you did on vitriolic acid. It was very interesting!
-- Nanaea
"...perhaps I only notice it because I am myself from the "cold" north where women are more often like sunshine than they are like fire *winks*"
****** How old are you, again, Selwyn ? :)
Anyway, thanks for all the in-depth research you did on vitriolic acid. It was very interesting!
-- Nanaea
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*blushes*
It was meant to be more innocent than it sounded I guess *smiles*
I did not mean to sound as if I am terrible experienced in such matters, for that I am not.
I just wanted to point out how different women are portraited in poetic French movies compared to poetic scandinavian movies.
In French poetic movies women tend to be innocent but lethal to the men who meet them. Like fire which consumes in passion what it touches.
e.g Jules and Jim
In scandinavian poetic movies women tend to be gentle and kind.
Like sunshine which makes the small, but important things grow stronger and easier to believe in.
e.g. Det skallede spøgelse (the bald ghost)
I am of course speaking in general terms now, since examples of the opposite could be found among both French and Scandinavian poetic movies.
It was meant to be more innocent than it sounded I guess *smiles*
I did not mean to sound as if I am terrible experienced in such matters, for that I am not.
I just wanted to point out how different women are portraited in poetic French movies compared to poetic scandinavian movies.
In French poetic movies women tend to be innocent but lethal to the men who meet them. Like fire which consumes in passion what it touches.
e.g Jules and Jim
In scandinavian poetic movies women tend to be gentle and kind.
Like sunshine which makes the small, but important things grow stronger and easier to believe in.
e.g. Det skallede spøgelse (the bald ghost)
I am of course speaking in general terms now, since examples of the opposite could be found among both French and Scandinavian poetic movies.
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Selwyn
Just in the movies? *raised eyebrow*.
As a student (and a voracious reader), I've found a number of interesting differences between the "Romantic" regions (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Latin America , etc.) and the "Northern" regions (Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc.).
There's a story by Susan Cooper based on an actual folktale from (I think) the British Isles about a man who falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a selkie (a sealwoman). Perhaps Nanaea can locate the title of the book (for it escapes me right now (Here, Title! Here, Title!) *beckoning whisles*).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
Just in the movies? *raised eyebrow*.
As a student (and a voracious reader), I've found a number of interesting differences between the "Romantic" regions (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Latin America , etc.) and the "Northern" regions (Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc.).
There's a story by Susan Cooper based on an actual folktale from (I think) the British Isles about a man who falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a selkie (a sealwoman). Perhaps Nanaea can locate the title of the book (for it escapes me right now (Here, Title! Here, Title!) *beckoning whisles*).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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I admit it :)
It is not only in the movies. Not that French and scandinavians are different people. In the end we are all humans alike to each other in many ways. Yet, mens romantic dreams of women in the northern regions seem to differ from the romantic dreams of women only a little further south in France. Perhaps it is the different ways of the light the two places as a friend suggest once we considered the matter.
It is not only in the movies. Not that French and scandinavians are different people. In the end we are all humans alike to each other in many ways. Yet, mens romantic dreams of women in the northern regions seem to differ from the romantic dreams of women only a little further south in France. Perhaps it is the different ways of the light the two places as a friend suggest once we considered the matter.
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