Early afternoon. You saw Dr. - this morning
and you are set up for a colonoscopy on April eighteenth. You were due for your
last one next year so to be on the safe side he moved it up to this month. You
had leftover meatloaf and cottage cheese for lunch. Linda and Carol are both
reading. - Amorella
1330 hours. I would just as soon get this procedure done early than wait
around another year. The actual colonoscopy is nothing; it's the prep
procedures the day or so before. The doctor said I will have graduated from the
'program' after this one. Seventy-five year old males are exempt from further
such procedures. I need to clean up chapter
17 from the desktop and move on to 18. It is rather pleasant not dealing with
Merlyn is this project.
Your real concern here is that you have been
stagnant for that last several years but the blog shows you have not. You have
been learning as well as accepting consequences.
1342 hours. You bring back a long lost specific memory when, decades
ago, I wished to remain invisible for the rest of my life. I forgot that wish.
It was a demand from heartansoulanmind, boy.
- Amorella
1345 hours. This was in my inner turmoil of 1988, I believe, or 1987. I
do not regret the wish and the psychology and reasoning behind it. And the way
not to be seen is by putting my heartansoulanmind in plain view of the two
dimensional world rather than three.
This is indeed your view. Post. - Amorella
1351 hours. I am in two parts as are most Homo-sapiens.
1416 hours. The Chapter Seventeen near final draft is put away in file.
You have moved upstairs and are sitting in the black leathered bedroom
recliner with the heating pad on low. Stop for now.
2018 hours. Tomorrow afternoon we head to Kim and Paul's and stay
overnight so Linda can catch her plane to Tampa in the morning. Tonight we
watched the first episode of the first season of "The Man in the High
Castle" so Linda could get a better idea of how the series is. She says
she is going to watch it once she is home and back into her routine. By
re-watching the first episode I have a greater appreciation as to how well this
show is put together and on how 'on target' the actresses and actors are as
well as the focus of the entire production.
You are a bit envious of those involved with High Castle, as well as
with the author. You first read and enjoyed the book sometime in the sixties. Below is from Wikipedia.
** **
The
Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternative history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II,
the novel concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as
they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the
resulting totalitarian rule. The
Man in the High Castle won
the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. The book would later receive
a 2015 TV adaptation also under the name, The Man in the High Castle.
Reported
inspirations include Ward Moore's
alternative Civil War history, Bring the
Jubilee (1953),
various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (referred to in
the novel). The novel features a "novel within the novel" comprising
an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat
the Axis (though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome). [Stop. More at Wikipedia. - Amorella]
Edited to
the television production of the article:
Television [Production]
After
a number of attempts to adapt the book to the screen, Amazon's film production
unit began in October 2014 filming the pilot episode of The Man in the
High Castle in Roslyn, Washington, for a new television drama to
air on the Amazon Prime web video streaming service. The pilot
episode was released by Amazon Studios on January 15, 2015, and was
Amazon's "most watched pilot ever" according to Amazon Studios' vice
president, Roy Price. On February 18, 2015, Amazon green-lit the series. The
show became available for streaming on November 20, 2015.
The
television series diverges from the novel in many significant respects. Both
the Pacific States of America and the Eastern American puppet state appear to
be mere provinces of the Japanese and German empires without any apparent
autonomous (even quisling) government institutions whatsoever. The Rocky
Mountain States become an anarchic Neutral Zone. World War II appears to
have ended following the destruction of Washington, D.C. with an A-bomb, rather
than a land invasion as in the book. As for Hitler himself, while elderly, he
is apparently mostly hale in his Season 1 finale appearance, though other
characters elsewhere in the season do reference his supposed physical
infirmity. In the novel, the Italian Empire is a minor power which controls
North Africa and the Middle East; in the series, however, it is shown through
maps that these territories are part of the Nazi Empire, suggesting that either
the Italian Empire was annexed after the war or is self-governing within the
Reich.
Characters
from the book that do appear are in most cases far more fleshed out with deeper
and sometimes rather different backstories than their novel originals. For
instance Wegener is a standartenfuhrer
in the SS rather
than a naval captain (and oddly there are no German military or naval – as
opposed to SS – personnel depicted anywhere in the first season). Rather than
being a member of an organized internal resistance (and despite his relatively
low rank) Wegener is a close personal confidante of Hitler himself and his
disillusionment with the regime appears to be largely personal. Juliana and
Frank are unmarried but living together rather than divorced and separated.
Frank has a sister, nephew and niece, although they are killed early in the
series, and this propels him into a more active role in relation to the
resistance. Juliana also has a sister whose murder by the Kempeitai early in the season instigates her search for the
mysterious Man in the High Castle, as well as her having a mother and
stepfather who are significant supporting characters. Joe Cinnadella is renamed
Joe Blake and as he becomes closer to Juliana appears to have growing doubts
about his role as a Nazi agent. Robert Childan is however a more minor
character (at least in Season 1) than the original, while Ed McCarthy has a
rather more prominent and active role.
There
are several major additional characters introduced by the television series and
numerous narrative details and the plotline differ radically from the source
novel. For example, the planned Nazi pre-emptive nuclear strike on Japan, "Operation Dandelion," is
apparently being prevented only by Hitler's personal refusal to authorise it,
leading Heydrich and the faction demanding pre-emptive war to plot the Führer's
assassination. In addition, Hawthorne Abendsen does not appear in the first
season of the television version and The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is
a series of newsreel films depicting multiple alternate realities
rather than a novel (although this idea may actually be borrowed from Dick's
later novel Valis which features a
mysterious film depicting yet another dystopian alternate history of the USA).
As of the Season 1 finale, these films are being tracked down by SS agents like
Blake for dispatch to Hitler himself for an as-yet-unknown purpose.
In
season two we see a map on John Smith's wall of the world. From this map we can
see that Japan controls the entirety of the Pacific Ocean and most of the Asian
continent, including China, India and half of Russia. Japan is also shown to
control Australia, New Zealand, western Canada, Alaska and, all pacific states
in the USA. We also see that that the Japanese Empire controls the Yucatan
Peninsula and South American countries like Chile. In contrast, Nazi Germany is
shown as controlling all of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The German
Empire also controls all of the United States and Canada up to the Rockies in
the west and South American countries like Brazil. Germany also controls the
western Russian countries such as the Ukraine. There are also buffer zones
between the empires. Neither empire seems to have invaded Mexico and this
neutral zone continues up through the Rockies and through Canada. A similar
neutral zone is seen dividing Russia in half.
Season
two also shows two very different lifestyles in the Japanese controlled Pacific
states and the German controlled east. The Germans have colonized the eastern
states and are assimilating its inhabitants into Nazi beliefs. The Japanese
Empire is occupying the pacific states versus colonizing them. There is
enforced segregation between Japanese and Americans citizens. It is implied
that Native Americans were exterminated by the Germans.
Selected
and edited from Wikipedia
** **
2112 hours. "The Man in
the High Castle" is the best alternate history (science fiction film) I
have seen. The counterpoint is our reality today under Trump which is as an
alternate reality for real.
Your main concern, after watching tonight's evening news, is North Korea. Would
they attack South Korea and American bases in Japan at the same time? How would
China and Russia respond? How would we respond if we were China or Russia? You
beg not to think so much on this because nuclear weapons are smaller and their
use would muddy the water more than a full-fledged nuclear world war. Do you
disagree with my assessment of your heartansoulanmind on this topic? - Amorella
2123 hours. You pretty much sum it up, you are certainly more concise
than I am, Amorella.
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