I am amazed that Hollywood was so true to the original. All-male adventure stories are a rare thing these days in film, however common they might be in life, and I found a woman reviewer from San Francisco who was mightily offended by it.
"It seems to me that I will remember for always, in the same way we remember those childhood and marvelous images we admired in our infancy and that seem more real that all that can be seen in the course of life" Léon Bloy, Le Pélérin de l´absolu
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Snowy doesn't think it's too early!
SAII ~ It was certainly too early for me this morning. I was still drunk from the evening before. And tonight I'm drunk again.
Just be careful it's only a few of the hairs and not the whole dog! Cheers.
I am amazed that Hollywood was so true to the original. All-male adventure stories are a rare thing these days in film, however common they might be in life, and I found a woman reviewer from San Francisco who was mightily offended by it.
DEK, I'm from San Francisco and that doesn't surprise me in the least.
"It seems to me that I will remember for always, in the same way we remember those childhood and marvelous images we admired in our infancy and that seem more real that all that can be seen in the course of life"
Léon Bloy, Le Pélérin de l´absolu
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