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Tuesday Oct 17, 2006

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I picked up a copy of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." In comparing the book to the movie, I think that the screenplay was a very good adaptation. The text is composed entirely of letters exchanged between characters and the movie relies almost entirely upon character interaction, something that is non-existent in the book. Aside from a few instances in which voiceover is employed to "reveal" the letters from the novel, the form of the work is completely altered from that of the novel. The movie is brilliant in it's "live-action" use of the letters. Where the book uses the letters in order for characters to tell about events which have transpired, the movie uses the letters to show the audience what is transpiring. One failing of the movie is that it leaves out a considerable amount of the book's content and, time-wise, re-organizes certain aspects of the plot. I guess that's the price to be paid for taking 415 pages and squeezing it into movie format. The strength of the book is Laclos's close attention to the ways in which characters use intellect to manipulate each other's actions; what is transparent to the reader is also transparent to Valmont and Merteuil who employ their powers of persuasion to set the events of the novel in motion. I have made it to page 297 and my guess is that in the next 100 pages or so, the two characters pulling the strings will end up destroyed (of course I saw the movie first so I'm totally cheating smile )
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huntersmencken:
Thai-Asian Food Market
350 Maple Ave W
Vienna, VA 22180
(703) 319-0730

Good family owned store with mostly groceries, but I think they have some prepared stuff in the back.

Two Thai places on Columbia Pike in Arlington are good, they're across the street from each other, and there is a Thai grocery among them on the same side of the street at Bangkok 54.

Bangkok 54 Restaurant And Bar
2919 Columbia Pike
Arlington, VA
703-521-4070

Rincome Thai Cuisine, Arlington Restaurant
Cherry Blossom Travelodge
3030 Columbia Pike (Highland St.)
Arlington, VA
703-979-0144

Bangkok 54 is newer, nicer, and more "adventurous" menu-wise. Rincome is my old favoite.

Arlington Thai restaurants
Oct 18, 2006
huntersmencken:
Oh! I forgot, there's a good and inexpensive eat in/carry out Thai restaurant at Tysons (not in the mall, on Rt 7) Pilin Thai

I've enjoyed many good meals there over the last few years and taken home many leftovers.
Oct 20, 2006

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