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Jan. 29th, 2009 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynneThis afternoon I ended up taking a nap. I was trying to read a book in bed, but I kept nearly falling asleep until I finally gave in and put the book away. I'm not sure why I felt the need to nap, since I've been able to consistently get around eight hours of sleep every night, but I do feel somewhat better for it.
I'd been trying to reread Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night, because yesterday I watched the BBC adaptation of it. It wasn't really a bad adaptation, but there were several changes made, and I felt the need to go back to the true source, which I love ridiculously. It's really a perfect example of character-drives-plot-drives-character, the character and the plot influencing each other in a manner that's truly delightful to read.
I do generally prefer the original books to their movie adaptations, and this was certainly not an exception, but I think I'm going to be quite fond of the film version here just for a specific visual--Lord Peter's monocle. And it's funny, because of course I'd read through the books always knowing that he wore a monocle, but then I saw it.
It was one of my childhood ambitions to wear a monocle. Or at least, it was once I started going near-sighted in the one eye that is of any use to me. I'd wear my glasses and think that there was no point in have two lenses when I really only needed one, and the solution to this would be to wear a monocle. I was a bit confounded by how exactly the monocle would stay perched in front of my eye, but I still wanted one.
I still am confounded, especially after watching how Lord Peter kept needing to put the monocle back on, which wouldn't do for me since I can't see really anything without my glasses. But still. I've always wanted a monocle...
I'd been trying to reread Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night, because yesterday I watched the BBC adaptation of it. It wasn't really a bad adaptation, but there were several changes made, and I felt the need to go back to the true source, which I love ridiculously. It's really a perfect example of character-drives-plot-drives-character, the character and the plot influencing each other in a manner that's truly delightful to read.
I do generally prefer the original books to their movie adaptations, and this was certainly not an exception, but I think I'm going to be quite fond of the film version here just for a specific visual--Lord Peter's monocle. And it's funny, because of course I'd read through the books always knowing that he wore a monocle, but then I saw it.
It was one of my childhood ambitions to wear a monocle. Or at least, it was once I started going near-sighted in the one eye that is of any use to me. I'd wear my glasses and think that there was no point in have two lenses when I really only needed one, and the solution to this would be to wear a monocle. I was a bit confounded by how exactly the monocle would stay perched in front of my eye, but I still wanted one.
I still am confounded, especially after watching how Lord Peter kept needing to put the monocle back on, which wouldn't do for me since I can't see really anything without my glasses. But still. I've always wanted a monocle...
