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09 May, 2024
Supplements my optician prescribed: the same brand available much more cheaply on eBay!
It was packed oddly: all the boxes opened and flattened. Ever
Supplements my optician prescribed: the same brand available much more cheaply on eBay!
It was packed oddly: all the boxes opened and flattened. Everything is here, though, down to the last explanatory leaflet. I bet posting it that way made it cheaper and probably easier.
18 Aug, 2019
Beware: abridged
*Pygmalion* isn't a play I like much, if at all, but I'm going to be in it, so I'm studying it. This Naxos version is a good one, well cast and clearly delivered. I especially like Lucy Whybrow as the unreconstructed Eliza, buffeted this way and that by poverty and pride, cunning and fear.
Beware, though. The blurb on the box makes much of the claim that this is Shaw's original version, with his abrupt and rather bleak conclusion, not the later more conventional revision in which the ill-matched central couple are presumed to fall in love and marry. That part may be true, but the play itself has been, without explanation or even admission, abridged, the pivotal Embassy reception scene cut from Act III, just as it was from the BBC radio version of 1994, and without the excuse they presumably had of broadcast time constraints.
What the producers have found themselves able to include instead is Shaw's misconceived and superfluous Epilogue of 1916. Remarkably, having squeezed the play by hacking a lump out of it, they've given the Epilogue a whole disc to itself. Baffling.
09 Aug, 2016
starting to breathe
I can't speak about the specialist sections on free-diving and pregnancy, both completely outside my experience, but the rest of this little pamphlet will be extremely useful for anyone who, like me, routinely practises yoga asanas and is looking to supplement them with breathing exercises.
Czipin's explanations and instructions are thoughtful, direct and specific. Presumably my English version is a translation from a German original: I can't see any acknowledgment, so perhaps she did it herself. The awkward title apart, the English is clear and easy, with few mistakes. She uses enough traditional Sanskrit vocabulary to key you in and enable you to look things up elsewhere, not enough to confuse or deter the inexpert.
The organisation and sequence of sections is perhaps not as logical as it might be, and some of the layout could be improved, but the typography is fine, and with only 34 pages you can't really get lost.
I'm particularly grateful for a sequence of warm-up exercises designed for the breathing muscles and joints. These in themselves are quite a workout: you will know straightaway that your technique is improving.