Unfortunately I can’t remember the title of the short story I’m referring to here, in which a houseguest overstays his welcome but not through his fault alone. The story is about a man who guests at a home. When the time comes for him to leave the hosts ask him to stay, as polite hosts [...]
Directed by: Adrian Lyne. Multilayered? You bet. The film is about one man’s life experiences in Vietnam (yeah that Vietnam, the bad one) and the events immediately before and after it. Ostensibly the film is about the secret use and testing of chemicals on US soldiers during the war. I think they even had the [...]
Do enough people care?
How many people knew that the supposed origin of this phrase was from the Latin mass when the priest transubstantiated the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ? The Latin words were: hoc est corpus meum (this is my body).
The words written on the wall of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. The other side reads “Nothing in excess”. Both fit in some sense I suppose but the former interests me more. I’m in agreement with many of the Greek catchphrases, if one chooses to call them that; the two listed here as well [...]