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Jessica Tandy too. The women are quasi telepathic in their communion with the birds. When Tippi grows uneasy so do the birds. A strange ritual in the phone booth. @manu

Defending Hector in Iliad 24, Apollo says, "you are merciless, you gods, and malicious," the only instance of δηλήμων in the poem, and Calypso echoes this verse when she defends herself with ζηλήμων, "envious," used in Greek literature only here and in allusions to this passage.

On this day in 1893, Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, OH. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if they had scripts and dialogue to memorize in silent films, or if the director just gave them a sense of what was being said. This was her astonishingly informative reply. Classy lady.

marvelously clever

This is a must read with its discussion of the horrendous one child policy in China.

Morning light

She got to work with Ophuls and Hitchcock

At church tonight

Books are back in fashion. This company sells $1400 sweaters….

wouldn't this be to promote civil war?

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The last pages of 1.2.3 of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy burn the air with anger. Education was as corrupt then as it is now. Jaycel Adkins 鍾書 James Bryson

Veo animation of Return of the Fly (1959) quad.