In the film “Out of Africa” (1985) there was a fleeting scene of the male star, Robert Redford, cranking up an early Victrola and putting a record on, to lure an ape. The music was Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A…
Category: Stories, Music and Film
Prussians, Monty Python and the Stupidity of Blind Believers; The Thinking Beneath the Thinking
In August, 1914, the first month of World War I, (then, also expected to be the last month), a German scientist, sitting with a group in Aachen which included Irvin S Cobb, then-journalist for the “Saturday Evening Post” (and highest…
Monty Python Philosophy Football, 1970s
Monty Python best described the contest between competing philosophies with a soccer match: (Listen closely, because Karl Marx comes off the bench at the closing minute, game tied, 0-0, then argues “Off-side” when Greeks score.)