“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
For audio version click here Walk quietly along a game trail in a dark forest under dark skies and the filaments of spider’s webs will catch you — their adhesiveness and strength will keep some fragment of them attached, and though you stretch and pull them away, threads will stick, and you will carry them with you. In the same way stories lie ready to fasten themselves onto us. Our paths on a quiet day suddenly thrust us […]
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For audio version click here Harry Lime’s charming brutality and selfishness does not set down a direction in life to anything except a boatload of enemies, a vacant heart and a probable early death. And who do you know who remains unmoved by the happiness or tragedy of strangers, of those “dots”? I would bet that number to be small. We seem to carry the seeds, at least, of a desire to bind ourselves to others we […]
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For audio version click here For 100 years history has been able to approach us sifted through movies, and the twentieth century especially produced devils of every kind for both movies and history to brood over. In The Third Man * the devil is neither dragon nor serpent; he wears no horns. He complains of indigestion. He has a beautiful lover. Harry Lime (Orson Welles) is the liveliest fiend in this firmament, a rubble-strewn 1950 Vienna. He dazzles us, and yet […]
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For audio version click here The Marine used to work out at my gym. Hello led to conversations. I sat with him a couple of times at the local library to help him with retirement and government paperwork. We became friends. He is 6’3″ tall, a 6th degree black belt in karate, 62 years old and wears his white hair long and shaggy. His body is veiled in Marine Corp tattoos. Two teardrop tats loom out […]
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