I present: mine and my gfs all-time favourite character
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I present: mine and my gfs all-time favourite character
Genevieve Tobin and Michael Farmer in Cyril Gardner’s PERFECT UNDERSTANDING (1933)
Perfect Understanding (1933) dir. Cyril Gardner
“What happened? Stabbed. Who by? The cook...the butler had hold of me. What is it? The cook stabbed the maid!”
The Talent of Shu (Shu cai 蜀才), in the strictest historical sense, was a man from Sichuan who compiled commentaries on two early mystic texts: the Yijing 易经 (Canon of Changes; a.k.a. Zhou Yi 周易/Zhou Changes) and the Laozi 老子 (a.k.a. Daode jing 道德經/Canon of the Way and its Potency) during the early medieval period. These texts are both lost, as is the identity of The Talent of Shu. By the sixth century CE, efforts to link the pseudonym to a historical individual had resulted in at least two scholars concluding that the mysterious commentator was none other than Qiao Zhou, the featured figure of this study. There is no surviving evidence to confirm this identification, nor was there likely any during the sixth century, but that is really not the issue. Whoever the early medieval commentator was, he most likely wished for his identity to remain concealed - hence the use of the pseudonym. It is the mystery and ambiguity of the name The Talent of Shu that lead me to employ it here as the title of this book. It may well refer to Qiao Zhou, but then again, it may not. But, from a broader perspective, it can represent the collective "Talent of Shu": all the intellectuals of the Sichuan region who have been largely overlooked by the eyes of later historians, until now.
Michael J. Farmer, The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan
seeing steve walking on crutches n michael farmer getting released from prison n roz bloody huntley finally stop lying honestly added 20 years to my life
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The Bishop of Norwich speaks for Infants and Parents
On Friday 6th September in the House of Lords there was a discussion about the “Support for Infants and Parents etc (Information) Bill [HL] – Second Reading” Lord Michael Farmer, the Conservative member of the House of Lords and several other people corresponded including the Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher. His contribution is included below. All of the other comments are available from…