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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ah, but do you know what menu actually means?
um..I mean I usually know what food I'm ordering off of a French menu! (even if I can't pronounce it properly)
What does 'menu' actually mean???
En garde! Fromage! Cherchez la femme!
And these things, of course!
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
What does 'menu' actually mean???
Menu is a classic faux ami/false friend.
A list of appetizers, main dishes, drinks, desserts, etc. is a "carte" in French. So, if you are ordering "à la carte", it means you are ordering individual things off one big list.
A "menu" is what Americans call a prix fixe meal, i.e., an appetizer + main course + dessert, all for one set price, where you can sometimes choose from among 2-3 things for each course.
So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
Seekrit message to juliana: Absolument pas!
So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
Good to know!
(I feel like I did know this at some point..)
I just read Ballard's follow-up memoir The Kindness of Women and it's fantastic.
Eh. It's been a decade since I read it, but my overall conclusion was, it's a lot less fantastic if you're one of the women in question. About the most interesting part of it, for me, was mapping the little fibs it's speckled with: for a memoir, it's remarkably untruthful on some of the details.
(Then again, that was part of the weird/creepy appeal of Empire of the Sun as well. Mrs. Vincent is a lot ickier when you realize that she's loosely based on his own mother.)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
I love that movie, but I think most of that has to do with my gigantic crush on María Casares. I tried watching another Bresson film afterward... err, I think it was the one about Joan of Arc... and didn't even make it half way through.
We Tell Stories.
I've worked on a bunch of similar projects with Google Earth and various literature or culture classes. On the plus side, Google Earth is way more fun than Google Maps. On the minus side, I don't get Penguin-Putnam's money.
it's a lot less fantastic if you're one of the women in question. About the most interesting part of it, for me, was mapping the little fibs it's speckled with: for a memoir, it's remarkably untruthful on some of the details.
That's a pretty backhanded dismissal. If you're calling him sexist you ought to take the time to make the case. Also, it's listed as a novel.
In any event, it's very well written so I'm not sure what standard you're holding him to.