Instant Gratification

Instant gratification can be had for good and bad.  For the most part you don't have to wait to go to the bookstore when you can download.  Pizza can now be ordered online and it's process of construction, oven entering, and delivery can all be viewed while waiting.  It's great, it's progress, but we must remember to use our intellectual skills to realize when it can be misleading.

I love to look things up on Wiki at times.  If it's for fun I'll read it, maybe click on a link or two, and I'm done.  But if it's something that I really need a trusted answer for then I will see what Wiki states and then research it by way of trusted sources. 

They don't have the manpower (I believe the article mentioned 4 or 8 employees) to check all of the entries, and I think that's a shame.  I would love to be able to go to Wiki for instant gratification for research and be done with it.  Life would be simpler and we could move along much more quickly.  Unfortunately that is not the case and until they incorporate careful screening of the information it isn't a good source for solid information.  But it's still fun!!

Bravo, Eliza!

I bow to Eliza Doolittle!  She knew the hand she was dealt and played it well.  Running off to Henry's mother and rehashing her life with him and Pickering was superb intelligence.  Henry's mother would never tolerate Eliza to be dismissed unfairly and guarded her from any further games Henry and Pickering may have been interested in playing.  She came through proving that she was even more intelligent and cunning than the two men in securing her future from a different angle.

While the play wrapped up in a pretty little package in the end, as I turned the pages I kept waiting for Mr. Doolittle to offer up a type of dowry or trust fund for his daughter and her new husband.  Did he know Pickering still felt obligated to fund Eliza's future?  And will Henry and Pickering remain indebted to Eliza, though Henry may fool himself into believing Eliza is indebted to him?  There are some stories that should never end....

Where is Kermie???

Okay, where are the pigs in this play?  :)

I have really been enjoying this play.  I do tend to form an opinion about a person by their dialect and have been able to place their region of development, but not as succinctly as in Pygmalion.  I can tell if one is from South Jersey, North Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, or the South, basics as such, but if I were to be studied enough to recognize a form of speech within a few blocks of where they lived, I would have to play psychic and freak them out just for entertainment.

What really stood out to me was the way he treated the people he met.  Those with a more sophistacated dialect he treated with respect, and the street urchin he seemed to be rude to.  I honestly hope this is something I don't do and will try to be more aware of it in the future to get an idea.