tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post1359783723088915391..comments2023-10-31T05:19:13.500-07:00Comments on The Black Sea: "We that are true lovers run into strange capers . . ."Black Seahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-90970808310134722812007-03-21T14:47:00.000-07:002007-03-21T14:47:00.000-07:00Don't they call the stops made by airline crews 'a...Don't they call the stops made by airline crews 'a lay over'?<BR/>How terribly appropriate in this lady's case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-68648505505790029292007-03-21T09:09:00.000-07:002007-03-21T09:09:00.000-07:00Yes, I also saw an article in the Daily Mail in wh...Yes, I also saw an article in the Daily Mail in which her "part-time career" was revealed. In my original post, I made some reference to layers of irony, and this would have to add another: the call girl who laments the fact that men are just after sex.<BR/><BR/>Again, I wonder what Dalrymple would make of it all. She used to be on the vice squad, but now (and perhaps then) she works as a prostitute, and she is divorced and depressed. But does all of this confused behavior stem from some organic depression, or is it all the cause of her depression? One of those obivous question that is all too rarely asked in our highly medicated approach to the dilemma of living.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I suppose we could count her interlude with Fiennes in the toilet as a sort of brief busman's holiday. Evidently, she must be pretty good at her work, since he invited her to his hotel the next day.Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-38586183604097034252007-03-20T15:46:00.000-07:002007-03-20T15:46:00.000-07:00May I add a late post-script to this series of com...May I add a late post-script to this series of comments?<BR/>It seems that Ms. Robertson has recently admitted to having been employed (both pre- and post-Fiennes) in 'the sex industry'.<BR/>Perhaps her dalliance with the redoubtable Mr. Fiennes was simply her way of relaxing in-between shifts at her normal daily job?<BR/>A sort of (f)light relief?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-82437501717358712742007-03-03T06:55:00.000-08:002007-03-03T06:55:00.000-08:00With reference to the previous two posts; one wond...With reference to the previous two posts; one wonders whether Ms. Robertson might have considered herself head over heels (or, even, heels over head)<BR/>in love, however temporarily?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-90704189615445233462007-03-01T23:44:00.000-08:002007-03-01T23:44:00.000-08:00Grumpy,I thought perhaps you were implying in your...Grumpy,<BR/><BR/>I thought perhaps you were implying in your comment that the lav was just large enough to accomodate Ms. Robertson, Mr. Fiennes, and Mr. Fiennes' evidently rather generously proportioned . . . what shall I say . . . "equipment."<BR/><BR/>Ah well, the comedy never ends.Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-34338155833080116252007-03-01T13:26:00.000-08:002007-03-01T13:26:00.000-08:00BS,small enough, as in 'conducive to intimacy, but...BS,<BR/>small enough, as in 'conducive to intimacy, but with just sufficient space for the exercise of a level of gymnastic inventiveness'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-88232195290017046432007-03-01T11:13:00.000-08:002007-03-01T11:13:00.000-08:00Thanks to both of you (Rick and Grumpy) for your c...Thanks to both of you (Rick and Grumpy) for your comments. <BR/><BR/>I had somewhat mixed feelings as I was writing this post. While I certainly found this incident an easy target for satire, I did also feel that there was something sadly, maybe pathetetically, human about the whole thing. Something originating in contemporary confusion, or maybe just simple human confusion.<BR/><BR/>Stories like this often put me in mind of Theodore Dalrymple's observation about the sad, screwed-up patients he so often sees. Dalrymple speaks of "their fundamental ignorance of how to live." This woman's confusion, one might say delusion, about what to expect from an encounter like this, seem to me to be reflective of that ignorance, but it's an ignorance we're all subject to at times.<BR/><BR/>Grumpy, as always, you are welcome here in "The Black Sea." Did you mean to say that the lav was just "small" enough, or just "big" enough? Or am I reflecting some contemporary confusion by asking this question?Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-336860442994465432007-02-28T12:36:00.000-08:002007-02-28T12:36:00.000-08:00rick,no quarrel with anything you say, just a resp...rick,<BR/>no quarrel with anything you say, just a response to your question about the size of business class lavatories.<BR/>As Ms Robertson would, no doubt, attest, they are JUST small enough!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8299268267657172129.post-56614288153150079292007-02-28T08:45:00.000-08:002007-02-28T08:45:00.000-08:00Assuming what actually happened was as Ms. Roberts...Assuming what actually happened was as Ms. Robertson described it, Ralph Fiennes's behavior was rather crude, and I am disappointed to learn of it. Perhaps because he often plays likeable characters, I had a good impression of him (ridiculous, of course — as Ms. Robertson said, he's an actor).<BR/><BR/>And while I can sympathize with a woman who is seduced and abandoned, that doesn't quite fit the case here. She is a grown-up who should have reached the age of discretion by now; she knew what she was doing and surely could not have imagined that having it off with Fiennes in the lavatory would have gone unnoticed. Most of the people in the business class cabin probably recognized Fiennes, and celebrities are always under observation in public.<BR/><BR/>I think Aussies are broad-minded, but what else could Qantas do when faced with a flight attendant's blatant misbehavior? And what did she expect Fiennes to do, pledge eternal love? Ring up the CEO of Qantas to ask him to give her a break? On what grounds?<BR/><BR/>Finally, as someone who invariably rides in cattle class, I am curious: just how big <I>are</I> the lavs in business class?Rick Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02371910140619422820noreply@blogger.com