{"id":8626,"date":"2022-02-18T17:20:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2022-02-18T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:16:53","slug":"on-more-rereading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=8626","title":{"rendered":"on more rereading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had this blog for a while now.<\/p>\n

(In fact, I just checked and I’ve made 965 published posts, dating back to 1999. Damn. That’s actually even more than I expected.)<\/p>\n

One result of this longevity (and loquacity) is that I often run into earlier posts which I have no memory of writing (although, at least so far, I’ve never found any which I thought were completely wrong). Also, sometimes I remember writing on a specific topic, but then I can’t find the actual post.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about this when I just searched for an earlier post about the benefits, and pleasures, of rereading things, but the post was, fortunately, easy to find: “On Rereading<\/a>.” I thought of this in relation to the articles from the beginning of the pandemic about people yearning for more and more “content” to binge, as I talked about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think I started watching The Witcher<\/a><\/em> around the beginning of this year, and I’ve watched all eight episodes from the second season, but I’m still focused on it<\/a>. I’ve watched multiple reaction videos to all the episodes, learning a lot from what other people see and don’t see in each one.<\/p>\n

I think my next project will be to go back and watch the first season, which I’ve never seen.<\/p>\n

I do not plan to read any of the Witcher books. If I like something enough, even an adaptation, I don’t need or want more information, or, possibly, contradictory information. One example is the movie Let the Right One In<\/a><\/em>, which I like a lot. It’s based on a novel, which is apparently good, but the movie is nearly perfect, and any good story depends on what was left out<\/a>. Why would I want to undo the (apparently correct) decisions which were made in creating the movie?<\/p>\n

(Demonstrating my lack of interest in foolish consistency, however, there is a deleted scene in the movie Gosford Park<\/a><\/em> which is definitely part of my headcanon<\/a> version of the film. It was removed because it referred to the subplot of the murdered man’s will, but it does show a very nice reconciliation between two of the characters, and I like that.)<\/p>\n

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I’ve had this blog for a while now. (In fact, I just checked and I’ve made 965 published posts, dating back to 1999. Damn. That’s actually even more than I expected.) One result of this longevity (and loquacity) is that I often run into earlier posts which I have no memory of writing (although, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}