You obviously did - heh - while I posted (and then the server went down), you wrote- and I read your EMU

It's all cool!

I sent you two back -- the last one being the most sensible -

I understand you now.

Ok <Branko> I hadn't even noticed. The most famous Canadian player in our history is <Kevin Spragget>, I think.

I never heard of him either.

But it looks like he got pounded by some of the all time greats (Keres, Gligoric).

He even drew against Fischer- although in 1956--

"How old he."

"He thirty-three." Luster said. "Thirty-three this morning."

In the last World Seniors' Championship, Uhlmann played *both* Titz and Kock. Sadly, they did not play one another.

"If alcohol is Queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses.

What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper?

I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth.

Finally, dear readers, allow me to end these ramblings on tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries, with some advice: Don't drink and don't smoke. It's bad for your health."

______________________________________________________- ______

"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers." ______________________________________________________- ______

"All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence." ______________________________________________________- ______

"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing."

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

YOu guys better not have some "secret book" of <Bunuel> quotiations.

The <Commission> expects you to SHARE the judges and politicians you keep in your pockets like so many nickels and dimes...

Tell me a title or two!!

I'll be doing a "mass ordering" of books this month from downtown and I'm still adding to my list.

Was he a WWII U-Boat captain?

<Francois Thevenot has unknowingly interrupted an illicit rendezvous between his wife and Rafael Acosta.>

M. Thevenot: Coming home with me?
Mme. Thevenot: Yes.
Rafael Acosta: No, no, wait. Let her stay just two minutes more. I must show her the sursiks.

M. Thevenot: What?
Rafael Acosta: The sursiks.
M. Thevenot: Ah, yes. I'll wait in the car.
Mme. Thevenot: I'll come right away.

<Francois Thevenot leaves.>

Mme. Thevenot: What are sursiks?
Rafael Acosta: I don't know. It doesn't matter. Come quick!

<Bishop Dufour is being introduced to the ambassador from Miranda.>

Bishop Dufour: I'm delighted to meet you. We have an important mission in Bogota.

Rafael Acosta: Bogota is in Colombia.

Bishop Dufour: That's right, Colombia. Sorry, I got mixed up. I've never been to Miranda, but I hear it is a magnificent country: the Great Cordillera, the pampas...

Rafael Acosta: The pampas are in Argentina, monsignor.

Bishop Dufour: The pampas. Of course. I should've known that. Recently I saw a book on Latin America. There were photos of your ancient pyramids.

Rafael Acosta: Our pyramids? We have no pyramids in Miranda. Mexico and Guatemala have pyramids. We don't.

Bishop Dufour: You're sure?

Rafael Acosta: Absolutely.

("The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie")

while I was taking my "post-dinner" bi-monthly shower I was just thinking "What Bunuel film do I like the most?"

And after giggling decided <Discreet Charm> because it is so freaking hilarious.

The humor in <Viridiana> is very dark- no lightness. When I first saw <Chien Andalou> it was in the introductory "Film as Art" class with about 500 students in it. When the razor sliced the woman's eyeball, many people began tittering in the audience.

I think it's because the audience was raised on "Nightare on Elm Street" and "The Evil Dead" and 300 gory sequels...

the funny part is that an image meant to "shock and awe" the audience- to "jolt them out of their bourgeois complacency" (literally the goal-- in a way this film is kind of dated and pedantic)-- could be tittered at for it's lack of gory verisimilitude.

I remember the professor going on and on about how <Bunuel and Dali> achieved the effect on screen. I don't think he appreciated the audience laughter. He was also adamant that the film puroposely had "no denotative meaning."

I remember thinking to myself- hmmm... this film is loaded with shots of sex and death, death and sex-- I think Freud may disagree here. Also, I think Freud was a substantial influence on the thought of both Bunuel and Dali.

Predictably, I made my opinions known in a loud and interruptive fashion. It's this kind of behavior that didn't help my "grade point average."

<Animal House when the Dean is reading out the grade point averages>:

"Mr. Blutarsky: Zero point Zero."

<Discreet Charm> has slaptstick even-- kind of like "Three's Company" but for the "egghead set."

<saw a book>... heh

<Uhlmann> Ok then- I'm happy to know that.

But are you SURE he wasn't also a U-Boat Captain in his spare time?