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Every Day Above Ground ([personal profile] mallorys_camera) wrote2034-03-02 01:28 pm

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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




Cuckoo

[personal profile] bb_lurks_here_too 2023-02-18 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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.