A couple years ago I posted about Clint Eastwood’s movie Invictus, the title of which comes from the homonymous poem by William Ernest Henley. I come back to this subject again to propose a comparison between two renderings of the poem: that of English actor Alan Bates, in the video below, and that of Morgan Freeman, in another YouTube clip showing an excerpt from the movie—sorry, embedding not available, but here’s the link. If I had to choose I’d say the second one, but they are two very different schools of acting.
The name of this blog indicates a place where people seek their bearings, but this is not a site where they can actually find them—everyone is, or should be, his own wind rose.
Previous incarnations of this blog: here and here.
About Me rob
Having had the honor to become the subject of one of Normblog Friday blogger profiles, may I redirect you to my own Normblog profile. A very good way, in my opinion, to get to know the owner of this weblog.
Obama Admin Leaked Confidential Israeli Intelligence
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Hey folks, nothing to see here. Just nevermind how the Obama administration
leaked sensitive Israeli intelligence while they were exacting retribution
on t...
Political Dysfunction Is Hurting Democracy
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E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week
of scandal obsession during which the nation's capi...
Hail to the Chief! Of What?
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By Dan Miller When He appears officially it is played. Who is the Chief? Of
what? Writing about Hail to the Chief here, I observed that President Obama
is ...
Are You Really Free? Thoughts on Liberty
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Truly?
I wrote an essay for my first English class in college positing the idea
that eventually the explicit graphic sexual writing and descriptions (this
...
Budgeting 201: An Immediate Debt Crisis
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*USA vs. Cyprus: Gross Government Debt to GDP*
- By: Larry Walker, II -
According to Speaker of the House John Boehner, *“We do not have an
immediate de...
Joe Biden: A Dumb and Dangerous Gun Owner
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As the left tries to find more and more ways to violate our
Constitutional rights, we have the Vice President of the United States
offering advice to r...
Mariage 3
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Les 'sages' donc ont voté la loi. C'était à prévoir vu la majorité des
socialistes au Sénat.
Aujourd'hui même, samedi 18 mai, la loi donnant droit aux ho...
Not necessarily the most bigoted
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I don't have the means to judge the comparative exercise reported on at the Washington Post; it's about degrees of racial tolerance across the countries of t...
The Northern Line
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Yesterday, my aunt and uncle (young 80-somethings) were traveling on
London’s Northern Line. A guitar wielding busker boarded the train. …
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So Long (and thanks for all the fish)
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So Long (and thanks for all the fish)
I've been putting off writing this post, but I can't put this off forever:
I'm closing down my blog. This blog has a...
Love never says "Enough"
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Josquin des Prez
Veni Sancte Spiritus
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God ordained in the old law that fire should be kept continually burning upon his...
Update for Next Week
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No blogging this next week. . .
Our provincial assembly starts in St Louis on Monday, May 20th and runs
through Thursday, May 23rd.
I'll be back in time ...
Should We Be Eating More Bugs?
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Our planet contains about forty tons of bugs for every human, says Helena
Goodrich, offering and “ongoing ‘all you can eat” insect buffet.” While
snackin...
A Baby Changes Everything
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A new baby is expected in our family.
No, for once it's not me who's pregnant.
Our oldest daughter and her husband recently announced they were expecting
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«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada»
1752
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
...
It's a bell of freedom» Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
William Shakespeare
«Julius Caesar»
Act 3, Scene 2
rob
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