Mountains make you lose your mind?

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:50:40 +0100, "Paul Saunders"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

| Currently watching a video of the greatest heroes and villians. I just
| noticed a quote by Kathy Bates about Jack Nicholson in The Shining;
|
| "Here you have a man, who's a writer, who's shut himself away, in this
| mountain, where he just, of course he loses his mind"
|
| Do mountains do that?
|
| "Of course"? Like it's bound to happen?

Read urc ;-)

Dave F

Never lot a mind, but anyone found a GPS - can't look at it to find out
where I left it ;-)
"Dave Fawthrop" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:50:40 +0100, "Paul Saunders"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

| Currently watching a video of the greatest heroes and villians. I just
| noticed a quote by Kathy Bates about Jack Nicholson in The Shining;
|
| "Here you have a man, who's a writer, who's shut himself away, in this
| mountain, where he just, of course he loses his mind"
|
| Do mountains do that?
|
| "Of course"? Like it's bound to happen?

Read urc ;-)

Dave F

Following up to Paul Saunders

Quoted message said:

"Here you have a man, who's a writer, who's shut himself away, in this
mountain, where he just, of course he loses his mind"

Do mountains do that?

they do if your inside the mountain.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

The Reids said:

Quoted message said:

"Here you have a man, who's a writer, who's shut himself away, in
this mountain, where he just, of course he loses his mind"

Do mountains do that?

they do if your inside the mountain.

Monkey got pretty [censored] being trapped in a mountain for hundreds of
years and being forced to eat iron every day, but he didn't go mad.

Seriously though, I can't think of many better jobs. You know the film
don't you? An entire hotel at your disposal for the whole winter,
surrounded by mountains, all the food you need, loads of peace and
quiet. All you have to do it check the boiler now and again and the
rest of the time is yours to do with as you please. Sounds pretty close
to paradise to me.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

Following up to Paul Saunders

Quoted message said:

Seriously though, I can't think of many better jobs. You know the film
don't you?

No.

Quoted message said:

An entire hotel at your disposal for the whole winter,
surrounded by mountains, all the food you need, loads of peace and
quiet. All you have to do it check the boiler now and again and the
rest of the time is yours to do with as you please. Sounds pretty close
to paradise to me.

Not bad, I get the impression the hotel is empty of staff? I
think I would like a chambermaid, but that's nothing new.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

"The Reids" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Seriously though, I can't think of many better jobs. You know the film
don't you?

No.

Is this Jack Nicholson in The Shining. He ends up going mad and trying
to kill his family. "Here's Johnny!!" being the iconic moment in
the film. It was copied for an episode of The Simpsons and there's a
"Here's Brucey!!" moment in Finding Nemo.

Ian.

ps. I have my own Shining scenario mapped out for me this winter as
I will completely on my own in my job from Mid October to March.

--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

Following up to Ian Dainty

Quoted message said:

ps. I have my own Shining scenario mapped out for me this winter as
I will completely on my own in my job from Mid October to March.

do the mime and we'll try and work out the job.
..
..
..
..
OK, Antarctic survey?
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

"The Reids" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

do the mime and we'll try and work out the job.
.
OK, Antarctic survey?

Spot on!

Er,,, hang on.... No.

--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

The Reids said:

Quoted message said:

An entire hotel at your disposal for the whole winter,

Quoted message said:

Not bad, I get the impression the hotel is empty of staff? I
think I would like a chambermaid, but that's nothing new.

Yes, sort of (you need to watch the film). He goes there with his
family so it's not as if he's completely on his own.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

Chris Malcolm said:

It's not the mountain, it's the shutting away.

This is what I can't understand. I'd love to have a long period of
peace and quiet like that. I suppose most people couldn't handle it,
most people in my experience seem to need some human contact. I don't
feel that way though. The more time I spend alone the more I like it.
The longer I go without seeing people out in the hills the more I like
it and the less I want to return to civilisation. I guess a lot of
people who don't understand me would disagree, but I believe I have the
right kind of psyche to spend a lot of time alone. I was very envious
of that guy who lived alone in a hut in Svalbard that Michael Palin met.
I could totally relate to where he was coming from.

Quoted message said:

We recognise a human mind because we've got one of our own. We keep it
similar to other minds, and therefore recognisably sane and normal, by
conversation. If you stop talking to people you become different,
i.e., weird, i.e., in the perception of a normalised
conversationalist, you have lost your mind.

Possibly, probably even. Wouldn't bother me though. Might bother other
people! ;-)

Quoted message said:

To some extent you can counter the progressive weirdness of mountain
isolation by talking to yourself.

I don't want to counter it. I don't consider it weirdness, more a
spiritual state of mind (but not in the religious sense).

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

Following up to Paul Saunders

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Not bad, I get the impression the hotel is empty of staff? I
think I would like a chambermaid, but that's nothing new.

Yes, sort of (you need to watch the film). He goes there with his
family so it's not as if he's completely on his own.

OK then, people to wash up and clean then.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Following up to Paul Saunders

Quoted message said:

This is what I can't understand. I'd love to have a long period of
peace and quiet like that. I suppose most people couldn't handle it,
most people in my experience seem to need some human contact.

We are social animals, its quite unusual to be relaxed about
long periods of isolation, after all, "solitary" is used as a
punishment.
--
Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

The Reids said:

We are social animals,

You lot are, yes. ;-)

Quoted message said:

its quite unusual to be relaxed about
long periods of isolation,

Yep, I gather it is unusual. I really like it though.

Quoted message said:

after all, "solitary" is used as a
punishment.

For others maybe. It's the difference between being alone and being
lonely. I really like solitude.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=118749

The message <[email hidden]>
from The Reids <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

OK, Antarctic survey?

In the Dales? The mind boggles. :-)

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 39 summits
New - 22 (Marilyns 8, Sweats 5, Outlying Fells 11)
Repeats - 17( Marilyns 6, Sweats 12, Wainwrights 11)
Knackered knee - 4 times

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:18:03 +0100, Roger <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from The Reids <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

OK, Antarctic survey?

In the Dales? The mind boggles. :-)

What!? Is Ian going to the Dales too?

--

Paul

(Watch this space)

"Paul Saunders" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Currently watching a video of the greatest heroes and villians. I just
noticed a quote by Kathy Bates about Jack Nicholson in The Shining;

"Here you have a man, who's a writer, who's shut himself away, in this
mountain, where he just, of course he loses his mind"

Do mountains do that?

"Of course"? Like it's bound to happen?

Paul

I think it's more that he's "shut himself away" that "of course" makes
him lose his mind. More to do with long periods of isolation with a
freaky child and a nasty case of writer's block than the mountain per
se. After all, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Arrrgh, it's happening to me!

Michael S said:

se. After all, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Arrrgh, it's happening to me!

Kubrick had that whole stack of pages typed, not just the top few
pages you see in the film.
http://www.houseofhorrors.com/shining.htm
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

The message <[email hidden]>
from Paul Rooney <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

OK, Antarctic survey?

In the Dales? The mind boggles. :-)

Quoted message said:

What!? Is Ian going to the Dales too?

ISTR that Ian said he was starting a new job up The Dales but i could
easily have confused him with someone else. He is a confusing sort of
guy. :-)

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 39 summits
New - 22 (Marilyns 8, Sweats 5, Outlying Fells 11)
Repeats - 17( Marilyns 6, Sweats 12, Wainwrights 11)
Knackered knee - 4 times

Chris Malcolm said:

To some extent you can counter the progressive weirdness of mountain
isolation by talking to yourself. Or the mountain. On certain rare but
impressive occasions mountains have talked to me.

What did they say?

Bernie