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The sense of ownership in general is always to be encouraged. The humans are
always putting up claims to ownership which sound equally funny in Heaven and in
Hell and we must keep them doing so...We produce this sense of ownership not
only by pride but by confusion. We teach
them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronoun—the finely
graded differences that run from "my boots" through "my dog", "my servant", "my
wife", "my father", "my master" and "my country", to "my God". They can be
taught to reduce all these senses to that of "my boots", the "my" of ownership.
Even in the nursery a child can be taught to mean by "my Teddy-bear" not the old
imagined recipient of affection to whom it stands in a special relation...
but "the bear I can pull to pieces if I like".
And at the other end of the scale, we have
taught men to say "My God" in a sense not really very different from "My boots",...
And all the time the joke is that the word "Mine" in its fully possessive sense
cannot be uttered by a human being about anything.
I recently finished watching the entire run of "Friday Night Lights". At first I wasn't sure about this show, thinking it may be too "high school" type, too "90210" type (sorry, can't think of a more recent example, lol).
First, you should probably like football and even better, you should be from or live in Texas to really appreciate this show.
I really, really liked the "Coach Taylor" role, and the whole family dynamic. After the first season, I was hooked and thoroughly enjoyed the remaining 4 seasons (5 in total).
One thing that I absolutely noticed is that I would often find myself thinking "OK, this is going to happen next" --- insert whatever obvious, bad, suspenseful thing you can think of here... But I was always proven wrong. The show constantly surprised me and never fell prey to repetition or predictable behavior.
Yes, I am actually thinking of buying the entire box set as a Christmas gift for my grandmother. She loves football and I think would enjoy this series, being a "Texas girl" and liking football, plus being a great show... I would say just rent it on Netflix, but she doesn't have internet access!!! Imagine that... That is why I am having a hard time deciding to actually buy the DVD's... I mean, who buys DVD's!!!
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So please take your eyes off the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see here. Move on.
