Alan Gandy

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Father: Every now and then, a person comes along, has a different view of the world than does the usual person. It doesn’t make them crazy. I mean… an acute perception, man… that doesn’t, that doesn’t make you crazy.
Rusty James: Could you talk normal?
Father: However sometimes… it can drive you crazy, acute perception.
Rusty James: I wish you’d talk normal ’cause I don’t understand half the garbage you’re saying. You know? You know what I mean?
Father: No, your mother… is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He’s merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river… with the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and findin’ nothin’ that he wants to do. I mean nothing.

About Rumble Fish

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.”

About a Tale of Two Cities

We English have been the victims of their attacks too, and one of my favourite quotes ever was by Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London after the Attacks on 7th July 2005… (It applies equally to the events of 911 too…)

“I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners— black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old— indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for caste, for religion or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »

Fantastic movie from a comic book original…

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About the film

About the original comic book series

“Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to break the busy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.”

Joseph Heller – Catch 22

About Catch 22

But what else would I want to be…? There is something very unique about us…. And it´s especially resonant in the current situation! Like it or not, make no mistake, we are at war.

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill

About The Scream

I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

—Edvard Munch