Important question I've been meaning to ask...

OccultHawk · 04-15-2018, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I feel empty after reading certain books, like Nabokov's Lolita, or Joyce Carol Oates' Zombie, but that's because the narrator's mind was so awful to get into that it left me feeling empty inside for days. Never finished either of those books because they were draining the life out of me.

You used to be quite a sensitive little snowflake, didn’t you?

The Batlord · 04-15-2018, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You used to be quite a sensitive little snowflake, didn’t you?

When you're numb and dead inside from years of depression and you don't remember what happiness or purity even feel like it can be pretty draining to see yourself mirrored in such a way, even if Humbert Humbert and what's-his-face are far more twisted characters than you.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 04-15-2018, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

When you're numb and dead inside from years of depression and you don't remember what happiness or purity even feel like it can be pretty draining to see yourself mirrored in such a way, even if Humbert Humbert and what's-his-face are far more twisted characters than you.

The Batlord · 04-15-2018, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

**** off, ***got.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 04-15-2018, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

**** off, ***got.

Classic Charles.

Lisnaholic · 04-16-2018, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

As for your question, Wiki has the answer:
840 episodes, approx 1 hour each (since BBC has no ads/breaks) = 840 hours.
If you decided to somehow watch them for 24 hours a day, if you could, then you would get through them all in 35 days or just over five weeks. Of course, if you were a normal joe, and let's say you did it in ten-hour shifts, then you're looking more at the likes of 84 days, which is 12 weeks, or three months.

^ Thanks for the stats on Dr. Who, TH. Although I love its low-budget inventiveness, as epitomised by the Tardis phone box, I think one episode a day would be sufficient for me. That means that if I started with William Hartnel's first episode today, I wouldn't be done until July 2020. Don't think I'm ready to make that kind of commitment.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

When you're numb and dead inside from years of depression and you don't remember what happiness or purity even feel like it can be pretty draining to see yourself mirrored in such a way, even if Humbert Humbert and what's-his-face are far more twisted characters than you.

^ Oh dear! I hope this is mainly self-dramatisation and not too much reality Batlord.

One movie that entranced me completely was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It was so fascinating to me that I didn't want it to finish, and when it did, and I drifted out of the cinema in a trance, it was a bitter disappointment to realise that, instead of being The Man with No Name, I was just a South London schoolboy again.