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[mallorys_camera]

This is basically a writing diary where I write all kinds of stuff that will be immensely boring to anyone who stumbles across it.

So you should go back to Facebook.

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. ---- Harry Lime

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[thisnewday]

But, but, but... I don't have a Facebook, lol. Or a face. You know, in that other sense. Thanks for the add...

[mallorys_camera]

My pleasure. :-)

[thisnewday]

Interesting story, that of Mallory's camera. I've just started watching the the BBC doc about the expedition that found his remains.

But I'm also interested in something else not found: the photograph of his wife which he'd promised her he'd place on the summit when he reached it.

Interesting how some of life's most intriguing questions center themselves on things not found...

[thisnewday]

Which may suggest the rephrasing, thusly, of that existential question: "Is something lost if no one is looking for it?" The syntactical ambiguity of which is amusingly appropriate...

Cuckoo

[bb_lurks_here_too]

Greene called that the best line in the film and gave Welles the credit for writing it.

"Welles recalled, “When the picture came out, the Swiss very nicely pointed out to me that they’ve never made any cuckoo clocks—they all come from the Schwarzwald in Bavaria!”

And we all know what Bavaria came up with.

Re: Cuckoo

[mallorys_camera]

Huh! I didn't know that.

It's a great soliloquy. 😀