The word of the day for April 29, 2007 is “premonition” — noun 1 : previous notice or warning : FOREWARNING. 2 : anticipation of an event without conscious reason : PRESENTIMENT.
I suppose I could have told you before I went to see the movie, Premonition, that the critics would hate it. The story takes too long for the viewer to catch on to what is happening. Or perhaps I was just having a dull day. Lloyd fell asleep about a third of the way through the movie and woke up just in time for the most exciting part. There were only a handful of others in the theater, none of them children, which was in this case a definite plus.
Maybe the writers had a clear idea where they were going, but the rest of us had to deal with a lot of disjointed scenes that didn’t really make sense until halfway through the movie—mind, Lloyd was asleep by that time. Thus, I had the dubious joy of discovering what the hero (Sandra Bullock) was dealing with and how she would do so all by myself. The two little girls were not asked to do anything beyond their abilities and were therefore a bright spot in an otherwise confusing movie.
The quote for today is from William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet responding to Horatio’s offer to forestall Hamlet’s duel with Laertes, of which Hamlet has a premonition that all is not well, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2, l. 165-8 (1604).
We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If
it be now, ‘tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not
now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
;^) Jan
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I have had a few auguries in my lifetime which I have accepted and then let them go unremarked. To me premonition is an instinct which we all have lying idle.
Jeanie
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