[HN Gopher] English cottage where John le Carre wrote Tinker Tai...
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English cottage where John le Carre wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
is for sale
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 37 points
Date : 2023-09-09 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| chrisweekly wrote:
| Random tangent: John Le Carre's son Nick Harkaway is a fantastic
| writer (whose works I prefer to his father's).
| darkclouds wrote:
| https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbtrrstrs210037
| devnullbrain wrote:
| That's a lot of rugs. Dogs?
| Archelaos wrote:
| I wonder what it looked like inside when John le Carre wrote
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in ca. 1974.
| drewcoo wrote:
| In England, "cottage" must mean something else . . .
| [deleted]
| gerdesj wrote:
| It's a word with multiple meanings and one of them is a type of
| dwelling. Which other meaning do you think is more appropriate
| given the context?
| pdonis wrote:
| The word "cottage" originally derives from "cot", which was a
| small hut or shack in which feudal serfs lived.
| compiler-guy wrote:
| And the term "computer" originally described a person who
| made calculations, not a machine. Etymology can be
| informative and revealing, but is hardly dispositive.
| gerdesj wrote:
| Well put. You used inward facing quotes and deployed:
| "dispositive".
|
| Why not try out these two: " ". My English teacher, back
| in the day, described quotation marks as 66 and 99. Back
| then we used ink pens because the best effort that IT
| could manage was sodding expensive and not really a
| thing. We had Biros and those new fangled fibre tips ...
|
| I used to be able to wield an edged pen and write gothic
| black letter quite well and my italic was almost as good
| as my granddad's.
|
| Whoops, mind wanders off piste ...
| ethomson wrote:
| There's no confusion about it referring to a dwelling. The
| confusion is about the _type_ of dwelling.
|
| To quote Wikipedia:
|
| > In American English, "cottage" is one term for such holiday
| homes, although they may also be called a "cabin", "chalet",
| or even "camp".
|
| In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a
| "cottage" would rankle an American ear.
| gerdesj wrote:
| >> In American English, "cottage" is one term for such
| holiday homes, although they may also be called a "cabin",
| "chalet", or even "camp".
|
| > In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a
| "cottage" would rankle an American ear.
|
| It might rankle an American ear but this isn't America,
| it's Cornwall (Kernow as one of my 11th great grandmas, off
| of Padstow, would have called it). Cottage hereabouts does
| not mean a holiday home - they are called holiday homes.
|
| I'll also note that here in en_GB land, the word camp also
| has multiple meanings and cottaging (the verb) does too. Be
| careful what you search for. Also please note that Kernow
| has its own language, which predates English, which is
| seeing a resurgence. It's one of the old Brythonic
| languages and Cornwall was once known as West Wales, but I
| digress.
|
| I spend a great deal of time trying to keep up with the
| various en_* vagaries. The split of en_US from en_GB (very
| simplistic depiction) is still quite young and you probably
| speak a closer variety and with a more "authentic" accent
| of English than I do, when compared to say that which was
| spoken in C18 when it started to brachiolate.
| Thorrez wrote:
| 5000 square ft... That's a mansion.
| FridayNightTV wrote:
| > In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a
| "cottage" would rankle an American ear
|
| To this British ear.....
|
| Plenty cottages sell for multi-millions (including many in
| my village, unfortunately). Please take your semantics
| elsewhere.
| majormajor wrote:
| I don't know why "American ear" was brought into this,
| even the OED has definitions that agree a cottage is
| _small_ and this is... very not small.
| chongli wrote:
| _In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a
| "cottage" would rankle an American ear._
|
| I don't think so. There's tons of multi-million-dollar
| lakefront properties all over North America. People
| generally refer to these as cottages since they're:
|
| 1. seasonal
|
| 2. not the primary residence
|
| 3. often located near a body of water and/or away from big
| cities
|
| 4. intended for vacations with families and friends (or
| short-term rental for the same purpose)
| Lio wrote:
| Haha, I thought the same thing. That's a rich man's idea of
| what a cottage is.
|
| From the look of it was once a terrace of individual cottages
| that have been knocked through into one dwelling.
|
| I love le Carre's work, so I'd say he deserved it.
| nixass wrote:
| Is this really a selling point?
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| That's a beautiful house. I wonder if the space you inhabit
| changes what you create. If that is the case offices need to be
| better thought about.
| tonyedgecombe wrote:
| I'd never get any work done there, I'd spend all my time taking
| in the views.
| Obscurity4340 wrote:
| Its a sad thought that so many of us can never realistically
| hope to occupy such a space and be able to truly have that kind
| of setting to breathe and heal oneself
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| > Its a sad thought that so many of us can never
| realistically hope to occupy such a space and be able to
| truly have that kind of setting to breathe and heal oneself
|
| I disagree with that...
|
| For the price of a studio in basically any "big" city (any
| big american city or any capital city in an european
| country), you can buy a big house in the middle of nowhere,
| surrounded by nature.
|
| People _want_ to be surrounded by concrete: they don 't want
| to live surrounded by nature (because "the arts" or "because
| social life" or whatever other reason). So for those who want
| to be surrounded by nature, prices can be extremely cheap.
|
| Heck, for the price of a normal house in many cities, you can
| have a _castle_ in France (as long as its in the middle of
| nowhere).
| hutzlibu wrote:
| "People want to be surrounded by concrete"
|
| People want to be surrounded by people.
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Yeah they were really missing the obvious implication of
| their comment there.
| andy-eye-candy wrote:
| Nature is luckily free most of the time
| [deleted]
| ethbr1 wrote:
| In many countries, by law.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
| read_if_gay_ wrote:
| yes but capitalism bad!
| Flatcircle wrote:
| so so beautiful. Now that's a dream house.
| clort wrote:
| Yeah but be aware before you move in that the Tater Du Lighthouse
| is very nearby (IIRC just round the point you see in Side Garden
| photo)
|
| Tater Du has an automatic fog horn..
| closewith wrote:
| Decommissioned, (un)fortunately.
| bookofjoe wrote:
| Not any more:
|
| >Fog signal
|
| The fog signal was originally a series (72 in total) of Tannoy
| units built into the lighthouse tower; they were powered by an
| alternator coupled to a 2-cylinder Ruston diesel engine. This
| was later replaced by a short-range Pharos Marine
| Omnidirectional electric emitter sounding the same
| characteristic of two one-second blasts every 30 seconds during
| fog. The fog signal was decommissioned in 2012.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_Du_Lighthouse
| andrewstuart wrote:
| It's not very highly rated but I loved the 2011 movie of "Tinker
| Tailor Soldier Spy" starring Gary Oldman and a cast of other well
| known actors.
|
| https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tinker_tailor_soldier_spy
|
| After I saw it I said to friends that its "the best movie I've
| seen in which pretty much nothing happens". That's how good the
| movie was - no action, nothing stated explicitly, lots left for
| the viewer to figure out, and still awesome. Definitely not for
| everyone but I loved it. Gary Oldman of course being one of the
| greatest actors of all time.
| md224 wrote:
| One of my favorite films! Agreed that it's not for everyone,
| but if you're on its wavelength it's really something special.
| Just incredibly well made with terrific performances. That
| ending sequence with La Mer...
| notpublic wrote:
| Then you should watch the OG - 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
| with Alec Guinness and Ian Richardson
| MrVandemar wrote:
| The first two minutes -- _two_ minutes -- is a _masterclass_
| in "show don't tell". All the suspects are introduced, one
| after the other, their characters clear as day, with not a
| line of dialogue.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq61jstTApk
|
| Genuinely stunning.
| omnicognate wrote:
| 84% is pretty high. I remember it being very well received,
| deservedly so.
|
| If you liked that you should try the 1979 BBC series of it [1],
| Alec Guiness also being one of the greatest actors of all time.
|
| [1]
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(T...
| jakeinspace wrote:
| I remember seeing it in theaters with my father, who is a
| massive le Carre fan. He enjoyed it (though obviously he had
| many issues in comparison with the novel), and I (15 at the
| time) remember being very bored. Still, I could appreciate that
| is had beautiful mood and subtle, well-written dialogue. It
| felt a much closer approximation of actual espionage than
| anything else I've seen.
| rr808 wrote:
| $3.7 million though? Does it include a farm? I thought house
| prices in California were crazy.
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Huh? It's 5,000 extremely well-designed and appointed sq ft on
| 3+ gorgeous acres. Maybe not a bargain, but far from outrageous
| IMHO. Hell, Redfin says my house is worth 1.7 and it's not in
| the same league.
| zdragnar wrote:
| It's a 5,000 square foot house on 3 acres overlooking the
| ocean. You're not going to ever find that for cheap, especially
| with its beautifully maintained condition.
| jay_kyburz wrote:
| Might be a good idea for a website. Collect real estate photos of
| house where famous people worked. Perhaps side by side with any
| photos of them actually working there!
| markus_zhang wrote:
| I wonder how much the maintenance cost is.
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