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Great ideas, AnotherCat!
One of my absolute favourite motifs is the idea of stranding, especially desert islands (they're only one very specific type of stranding that may have no bearing on a Stranded topic, but they almost always get my romantically idealised imagination going). At the risk of oversharing, I'll even admit that I'd never owned a television as an adult until I had to buy one to watch this 'Survivor' I heard about when it first began (the U.S. version and the much shorter-lived U.K. version). My interest in that series only lasted a few years, but one of my all-time favourite telly series is Lost (I didn't watch any other television after Survivor... until I had to start again after hearing about Lost), one of my favourite things to watch the few times I got to see it when I was young was reruns of Gilligan's Island (seriously, lol), one of my favourite films as a teen was The Blue Lagoon (and the Blue Lagoon knock-off film Paradise, which is technically set in an oasis but basically acts as a desert-island film), one of my all-time favourite books is Robinson Crusoe that you mentioned, another is And Then There Were None, and well I could go on and on, heh.
I also love the idea of 'Many Rivers to Cross'. There are a lot of ways to play with that as a topic when searching for nominations. Great song choice. I know the Jimmy Cliff version, and I like the Joe Cocker version too if you've ever heard it. I love reggae, so Cliff and even UB40 are right up my alley, lol. I know Linda Ronstadt but not her version of that song; I'll have a listen to it.
I'd be more than happy with whichever topic if anyone else has a preference of one or the other for September.
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