Thursday, October 10, 2002

What does the Trinity College Library in Dublin and  the movie "Attack of the Clones" have in common? - "Is it too much of a coincidence that designers ....  - "Is it too much of a coincidence that designers at Lucas Films would produce a library with not only a similar book arrangement to the Long Room, but a similar roof? A roof that was not original but added by later generations to solve a specific problem? The original flat ceiling was causing the external walls to buckle, and the insertion of the barrel vault was the preferred option to reintroduce structural integrity to the building. Additional supports were added which run from the floor to the ceiling along the edge of the bookstacks. Each library bay became structural abd is vaulted at right angles to the main vault." "Trinity don't think so. After an article in the University Record (the college newspaper), the college authorities have instructed their legal advisors to look into the case. According to a recent report in the Sunday Independent, spokespeople for George Lucas have stated that "It is totally untrue that there is any connection between the scene in Attack of the Clones and Trinity College." We'll wait and see." (via Folderol) [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] 1:31:48 PM    comments? [] Have you been following the Supreme court debate on Copyright Law?  Here are a couple of articles about yesterday's proceedings: High court weighs copyright law. Supreme Court justices debate a copyright extension law that prevents works like Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" and the poems of Robert Frost from becoming part of the public domain. [CNET News.com] 11:48:12 AM    comments? [] NY Times report on Eldred v Ashcroft. [Scripting News] 11:42:49 AM    comments? [] The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 Imre Kertész The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2002 is awarded to the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész   "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".   In his writing Imre Kertész explores the possibility of continuing to live and think as an individual in an era in which the subjection of human beings to social forces has become increasingly complete. His works return unremittingly to the decisive event in his life: the period spent in Auschwitz, to which he was taken as a teenage boy during the Nazi persecution of Hungary’s Jews. For him Auschwitz is not an exceptional occurrence that like an alien body subsists outside the normal history of Western Europe. It is the ultimate truth about human degradation in modern existence. 11:30:46 AM    comments? []

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