Today is a good day in American politics, and I mean that whether you're Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, or whatever else. Inauguration Day is always historic, and I hope we pay attention to it. I've added one of my favorite quotes from Bush's Inauguration Speech on the sidebar. It was a great speech -- and I mean that if you're conservative. :) It was great because it reached beyond the bounds of President Bush himself, and stretched to the ambitious topics of freedom, God-given rights, and the founding and preservation of America. Weighty matter, that. If you didn't hear it, please read it. I promise you'll be better off for it. President George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address
I also watched National Treasure today, and that in conjunction with the Inauguration today has made me ... pensive, I guess? I want to say that I'm reminiscent about the Declaration of Independence, but let me clarify that. It sounds like I'm saying that I was somehow involved in the drafting of the Declaration, which (of course) I was not. However, I have personally adopted the Declaration of Independence as a statement of personal belief, and that's what I've been reminiscing about. It's now on my desktop wallpaper. Unfortunately, I can't read it.
About the movie, though. It was good, not great. The writing was weak, and it had a plot that was bursting to the seams -- so much so, that you felt completely out of your depth by about 3 minutes into the film. There was no time to catch your breath before you were thrown into the middle of this huge plot. Action and conflict are important in plots, and you have to have it at the beginning to pull people in, but you need to allow your audience time to soak it in, as well. But enough on that.
Today's quote, worth 20 points: "One may have that condition by fits only."
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I also enjoyed the inauguration. The speech was fantastic. As for the movie National Treasure, it was okay. The plot was weak. This seemed to be another example of writing by comittee. Anyway...
For my points (extra points?? =Þ), Here's the full quote:
"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only."
- George Eliot (Brittish novelist)
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