Netflix movie: Au Revoir Les Enfants. French movie made in 1987. Subtitles. Good, sad, seemingly made up of several separate incidents that makes one wonder why this or where is this going. Set in a Catholic boys school in 1944. One of the main characters is a Jew who is being hidden from the bad guys. Bad guys are the Germans, the Nazis. Give it a four.
In The Piano Tuner, we have arrived in Mandalay in Burma. Edgar Drake is presently enjoying some night street theater with a British officer and a lovely Burmese woman. Still a ways from his destination and the piano he is traveling around the world to tune. As I read this, I try to remember the heat of the tropics, the discomfort. No memory there, yet.
Rudyard Kipling wrote of Mandalay in this poem of a hankering for a remembered time in a far away place, something we all share on occasion.
No golf today though did run into a several golfers down at the VFW late this afternoon.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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