antici........pation
Apr. 20th, 2003 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerA somewhat ill Adam was round yesterday, waiting for Bekka to get off of nigtshift so that he could spend the remained of the weekend with her.
Due to his illness neither of us wanted to watch something difficult or depressing, so we opted for the series Blackadder Goes Forth (which has depressing bits, but is largely funny). It came out in 1989, so we'd both seen it several times before, but not recently enough to remember it perfectly.
With the jokes we'd forgotten, we laughed a lot, but with the jokes we'd remembered I tended not to. Adam, on the other hand would start laughing anything up to 2 seconds before the punch-line. I'm not even sure that he realised he was doing so, but he burst into giggles just before something funny happened on several occasions.
Thinking about Dennets theories of mental revisionism (that we put together our memories of an even as we go along, revising previous versions as we get more information abouit the event), I wonder if Adam remembers himself laughing at the jokes or beforehand...
Due to his illness neither of us wanted to watch something difficult or depressing, so we opted for the series Blackadder Goes Forth (which has depressing bits, but is largely funny). It came out in 1989, so we'd both seen it several times before, but not recently enough to remember it perfectly.
With the jokes we'd forgotten, we laughed a lot, but with the jokes we'd remembered I tended not to. Adam, on the other hand would start laughing anything up to 2 seconds before the punch-line. I'm not even sure that he realised he was doing so, but he burst into giggles just before something funny happened on several occasions.
Thinking about Dennets theories of mental revisionism (that we put together our memories of an even as we go along, revising previous versions as we get more information abouit the event), I wonder if Adam remembers himself laughing at the jokes or beforehand...
