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[bliumchik]

I am: Olaf Stapledon Standing outside the science fiction "field", he wrote fictional explorations of the futures of whole species and galaxies.

Which science fiction writer are you?

I... I have to google this guy now :P

I have half an hour before my Cinematic Cultures tutorial. In the screening today we watched Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard. It was an interesting film, if a bit inexplicable in plot on occasion, and featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo's very distracting shoulders and Jean Seberg demonstrating the European obsession with thin black and white horizontal stripes. They were both very good. He sort of oddly reminded me of Brendon Urie plus ten years. I think it was the lips.

Also why is everybody in France called Jean?

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[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Also why is everybody in France called Jean?

Because until 1993, the choice of names was restricted by the state. Hence the high number of compound names.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

But why is nobody called Paul-Jean?

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Because there was a monk called Paul-Jean de Matarac in 1126 who was blamed for the destruction of the de Matarac monastery.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

...really. And what nefarious crimes did Luc-Jean, Michel-Jean and Pierre-Jean commit for their names to be consistently reversed?

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

They were thirteenth-century bank robbers.

[kira-snugz.livejournal.com]

i read that as Jean Luc Picard, and spent like 20 min daydreaming about star trek

and those are totally distracting shoulders. yum