Update question:
I was expecting a "major movie release" in December 2007 of a dramatic version of the story based upon Iris' book.
Thanks to the IMDB database I now "understand" that "The Rape of Nanking" was and HBO documentary and the dramatic movie was "Nanking" with Jürgen Prochnow and Woody Harrelson that supposedly was released in September 2007.

Why was there NO publicity that I saw for the movie "Nanking?"

Why is it not available at Blockbuster if it came out (and disappeared) 5 months ago?

Was the movie THAT bad (as opposed to a horrifying subject) that it didn't even go "direct to video?"

swordstoploughshares,

I finally finished reading "Sophie's World."
Thank you for mentioning it. I graduated high school in 1965 so that much of the "fiction" literature written since then is not something I find out about. However, I am very thankful that I have my 60 year old perspective.

The book is as much of a "history of philosophy" as Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and reaches the conclusion that who we are and how we interpret "reality" is totally dependent upon our relationships with others. (That should not be a "plot spoiler.")

"Zen" was awesome in that it "explained" the shortcomings of Aristotelian logic. But what was even more awesome was that the second time I read it 30 years later in 2007, I actually think I understood it.

The difference is not so much that I am now 60 years old, but that I have the advantage that Pirsig and Gaarder did not have is the availability of Quantum Mechanic's String Theory as a metaphor.

Quantum String theory as a metaphor unites the Ying and Yang of philosophy by making compatible the Aristotelian binary view with the Asian metaphysical view of the world.

Basic String concept:
1) Quantum Strings exist only in relationship to other Quantum Strings. There is NO such thing as a Quantum Singularity. The “tree that falls in the forest that no one hears” not only doesn’t make a sound, but the tree does NOT exist.
2) For a Quantum String to exist, its relationship with other particles must be greater than the Decoherence threshold (the effects boundary separating single versus multiple events).
3) The only valid way to describe or predict the behavior of Quantum Strings is in terms of statistical probability rather than Absolutes of a specific String.

String theory explains EVERYTHING, including how and why God exists.

Spoiler alert: If you read the updated version of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" be prepared for the Addendum taking you from sheer joy to sheer terror and back to joy in the last two pages. Life has not been easy for Pirsig, but his justifiable faith in humanity remains.

My apologies to this message board because this posting is the ONLY way that I can communicate with "swordstoploughshares" IS this message board for her protection as well as mine. I am a 60 year old Scoutmaster and she is still a high school student and this altruistic barrier is for the protection of both of us.

Hold2File@comcast.net

Hi Michael - sorry I missed answering your email. I did not pick it up until the weekend. I have to admit I am more and more of an introvert as I get older and communicating on venues like this is fine with me. Cold weather makes me want to stay inside. Maybe when the weather is nicer.

Hold2file - "Nanking" (the Ted Leonsis version with Woody Harrelson) only opened in DC the week of February 10. My husband went to see it and thought it was very well done and thought everyone should see it. He is just now finishing up the book. As I said - I can't and don't see movies like this. One of my friends said she picked up an autobiography of Minnie Vautrin. I'll ask her the name of it.

Susan,

Thank you for the info on "Nanking." I couldn't believe the movie had disappeared but there has been no publicity about it in Atlanta. Hopefully, it will soon get more distribution.

Hold2File
 

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Subject: Iris Chang 1968-2004 (formerly "Why Did Iris Chang Kill Herself?") To: "QT topic subscribers" <qtopic-subs@quicktopic.com>
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