“We know more about the surface
of the moon than we do about
the bottom of the sea”.
“We know more about the surface
of the moon than we do about
the bottom of the sea”.
Isn’t idyllic a pleasant word?
It sounds as calm and as pleasant
as the world it describes.
Despite fame and fortune, the little girl without parents, who lived her young life with whores, never went away. She stood next to Edith Gassion at every turn - Piaf or not.
Fildles, fifes, and all other instruments, produce distictive overtones that allow us to identify them as distictive personalities.
No one thought of her as a victim of anything. She didn’t think of herself
as a victim.
Rob pulled the DeSoto into the JulieCab yard and left it running.
He handed the fare envelope & clipboard to Julie and said goodnight. Julie was closing down. Her younger sister, Mary, had already started daytime dispatching.
Medieval French soldiers had a name for a death blow delivered to mortally wounded comrades.
They called it the coup de gras,
the touch of grace. Many celebrate the concept today.
Telling an untruth is not the same as lying. People accused of lying are often telling what they think is true.
It’s not a lie unless they know what they’re saying isn’t true.
Cinema has a thousand fathers, all of them labored at nearly the same time to create the illusion of pictures moving. Innovators in England, France, Germany, and America all contributed significantly to the history of cinema.
There are no membership rolls, but the members know each other as soon as they meet.
Summe fades. Green leaves are turning yellow. Some have fallen. A month from now the remaining leaves will be ablaze in color. A month after that they’ll be spread lifeless & brown, like a mortuary quilt on the lawn
They left Pugatory for a Paradise of warm sea breezes, plams, and blue-green waters.
killing would have been the straightforward solution. I didn’t want to kill them. I wanted them gone.