Here’s my hypothesis on character study, because I’m totally overthinking this. You’re supposed to root for Mickey despite her flaws, because she has what are traditionally ‘dude flaws’; she’s sloppy, she’s a stoner, she’s oblivious to people’s feelings.

Can I join you in the corner? As I legit adore the movie too. To the point where I wish it was about 30 minutes longer to fit in more of the book. It’sent enchanting.

That show is AWESOME and everyone needs to watch. They just released season 4 here in the States. Also, as hot asMacfadyen is, dude who plays the American doctor is hot too and needs to be in more things. Props to him, as he’s actually American and easily keeps up with the Brit actors.

It’s basically a bunch of awkward fools.

It’s my favourite movie (of all genres ever) and I will fight anybody who says it’s not perfect. Macfadyen Darcy is the best and hottest Darcy ever.

I was being facetious. I thought it was pretty much a modern classic

That movie is PERFECT. It just is. Everyone is appropriately handsome (sorry but the Bennett sisters in the BBC adaptations do not strike me as beauties), Darcy and Bingley are perfect, all the other characters are perfect, the score is to die for, and I find the evolution or Elizabeth and Darcy’s interactions…

Oh yeah! That’s a good movie.

Seriously? No spark? Have you seen an obscure flick called Atonement?

I don’t mean that generally, I think she’s quite a fine actor. Just for me, personally, the roles where she’s been called on to portray a protracted term of unrequited love/sexual tension have fallen flat. Maybe I haven’t seen her in the right things? Mostly I’m thinking of the Pirates movies, which, ugh. But she was…

Matthew Macfayden Darcy or GTFO.

I need to practise this. I used to love walking around outside during electricity outages because it was so unusually dark, and so unusually quiet. Night is one of my favourite times to walk alone; and I hate feeling afraid to walk as a single woman. Another thing men might take for granted: feel like a walk at any…

I’ve baffled people by being able to navigate around in the dark. I’m a sighted person, wear glasses, and can actually see fairly well at night by most standards. But even I can’t see in a completely dark room, or in the middle of the woods with no stars and moon, yet I can get around (without hurting myself or…

Those are beautiful images: a collage of our crazy, accidental, messy shared tapestry of evolution. It’s a wonder any of us survive. ✨

Definitely. When it comes to the brain, it really is “Use it or lose it.”

Absolutely. But it can be lost! And I did not emphasise this but one of the main reasons for which he wrote this book is that his parents encouraged his cerebral fluidity, and thus neither he nor anyone else doubted it. When he came to the United States, however, after the war, he noted how acutely ‘dis-abled’ the…

That’s the plasticity of the brain at work. The regions of the brain normally devoted to processing visual stimuli are re-tasked with processing auditory ones instead (among others). Your brain is constantly building a sensory map of the world around you, and it isn’t formed from any one sense, but an amalgam of all…

Here, I would like to recommend Against the Pollution of the I (yes; it’s French). It is a fascinating book that recounts the life of a resistance fighter against the Nazis — who survived a concentration camp — who was blind since a boyhood accident.

Too bad they had a goddess standing behind someone who clearly needs a shower.