tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2613697027000289636..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: 2 on the Aisle: The Caine Mutiny [1954] & Patton [1970]Curtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-92124715961457808922009-09-15T14:24:40.823-07:002009-09-15T14:24:40.823-07:00A good post, with your breakdown about the social ...A good post, with your breakdown about the social and personal aspects of valour. Patton, one might suppose, was someone who went beyond the reasonable embrace of his best and worst virtues and saw himself instead as merely perfect, a being in pursuit of his destiny. This would make him a sociopath, someone for whom the exterior world wasn't worth bothering with unless it were embroiled in crisis and catastrophe only war can bring on. The right man in the right place, at the right time , on the right side. <br /><br />A small matter, a niggle at best:<br /><i>"...reprimanded by Eisen<b>hauer</b>..."</i><br /><br />Should that be Eisen<b>hower</b> instead?TED BURKEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84169726013613850842009-09-09T18:21:11.970-07:002009-09-09T18:21:11.970-07:00you left out All Quiet on the Western Front
http:...you left out All Quiet on the Western Front<br /><br />http://www.filmsite.org/allq.htmlEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-9185543306195582492009-09-09T16:29:56.813-07:002009-09-09T16:29:56.813-07:00In a world of 9 billion, the union
of
fascism
an...In a world of 9 billion, the union<br />of<br /><br />fascism<br /><br />and <br /><br />absurdism<br /><br />seems not only possible<br />but highly aesthetic<br /><br />especially<br /><br />when the general 'look'<br />of any human city is basically<br /><br />'slum'<br /><br />there is the sense that even being human anymore is<br /><br />'slumming it'<br /><br />against my imperial imagination<br />even the world's hyper-rich<br />are woolen paupers<br />in tawdry leaf-husks..<br /><br />What we need <br /><br />is Hitler + Liberace' + Carol Channing + Akhenaton + a sweet little donkey with daisy wigs..<br /><br />I am completely bored with this rock. What a dud fire-cracker the world turned out to be..<br /><br />The rich are boring.<br />The poor are boring.<br />The smart are boring.<br />The creative are boring.<br /><br />Even nature is boring.<br /><br />One damn rock with chicken-monkeys<br />in the whole universe.<br /><br />What a sick joke.Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.com