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I didn't know that. Thanks

Saladin — Sat, 07 May 2011 06:02:03 +0000

I didn't know that. Thanks for the thought-provoking post.

Jeez, Mr. P-K; I'd have

we are stardust — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:42:19 +0000

In reply to OK then, let's get dressed.

Jeez, Mr. P-K; I'd have guessed you'd known. Asleep? You really don't know? Dancers are the next enemy No. One. Mostly gay, mostly Socialists or anarchists, and they smoke ganja. Oh--and atheists, to boot. Fight the Power! Dance Flashmobs! In front of churches and banks!

Let it play and ya can hear the Drifters 'dance with me', too. ;o) This may show why that 90s idea that the Lambada and tangoes might cut down on er...the spread of AIDS.

I piled them up, over there

quinn esq — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:21:22 +0000

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I piled them up, over there by the fence.

Why, you want some?

Just saw this concerning

we are stardust — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:15:39 +0000

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Just saw this concerning Kushner. Thought it might interest you.

FYI: подполья is pronouced as

William K. Wolfrum — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:17:03 +0000

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FYI: подполья is pronouced as it is spelled.

Architects call that space

Donal — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:11:05 +0000

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Architects call that space between floors, "interstitial" space.

Vladimir Nabokov felt "Notes

artappraiser — Fri, 06 May 2011 07:17:09 +0000

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Vladimir Nabokov felt "Notes from the Underground" was a really stupid translation and that the title should either be "Memoirs from a Mousehole" or "Memoirs from Under the Floor."

And that kinda fits with Dostoyevsky's We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

In 1969, Joseph Heller wrote

MrSmith1 — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:57:58 +0000

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In 1969, Joseph Heller wrote an anti-Vietnam war play called "We Bombed in New Haven." http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/15/home/heller-bombed.html which starred Jason Robards.

I have never forgotten the device he used, where the Jason Robards character would reply to questions: "Do you want the truth or do you want a lie?" The other actor would always reply that they wanted the truth, but it was always depressing, so the other actor would stop Robards mid-speech and say, "Give me the lie." and Robards would replay the scene using the lie which was usually completely over the top, but was so much easier for the other character to accept.

This reminds me of Tony

Obey — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:48:56 +0000

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This reminds me of Tony Kushner's brilliant script for the movie Munich. There's Eric Bana's character Avner who in one of the lulls in their assassination rampage tells one of the others to stop trying to figure out who is getting played by whom in the greater scheme of things. And he admits "I am not comfortable with confusion". To which his colleague responds, "I knew guys like you in the army. You'll do any terrible thing you're asked to do, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun doubts, fear. The only thing that really scares you guys is stillness."

It seemed so spot-on as a description of a certain character-type: the man of acute action, if you will. Of course at the end of the movie Avner gets tired of fighting for Israel and emigrates to ... the US. More his kind of people.

Great piece as usual Larry.

ou sont les neiges d'antan?

EmmaZahn — Fri, 06 May 2011 03:58:23 +0000

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ou sont les neiges d'antan?