“You should have seen the looks on their faces, in a smile and twinkling of an eye it said: “You haven’t been able to help much, but here is your chance! We’ve got them now! Come on ol’ boy what is the answer to this one? Lord knows I don’t know President Truman’s middle name is…” And I sat there feeling awash in the possibility of redemption. “Harry S. Truman…. I know this one…. Harry Stevenson…. Harry Scott… Starts with an S! Let’s see. Swim? Swammi? Slippy? Slappy? Swenson? Swanson?” I couldn’t remember.”
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“Between the logic of the most ‘absurd’ film and that of the dream, there will always remain a difference, because in the latter what is astonishing does not astonish and consequently nothing is absurd: whence, precisely, the astonishment and the impression of the absurd one feel on waking.” –Christian Metz
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“I found solace however after watching Withnail & I, an English cult classic comedy about two out of work actors. I delighted to see them bundled in their own home, going out for tea and staying far too long just to enjoy the free heat, etc. And as I clanked around on the keys of my typewriter I couldn’t help but feel like I was actually living the English adventure I had imagined before I came.”
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“Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent, to blow up King and Parliament.”
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