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The Razor’s Edge
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The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over: thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard. — KATHA UPANISHAD Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge was turned into a movie I saw decades ago, starring Gene Tierney, Ann Baxter, Tyrone Power and Herbert Marshall. It was not a memorable nor near […]
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Blood Libel and All That Jazz
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Impressions. Since Sarah Palin does not write her own books — nor credit the ghosts who do, I suppose her “Blood Libel” talk was composed by speechwriters. I also suppose that ignorance is usually surrounded by ignorance, the undereducated in league with the undereducated. Quite likely that team Palin had no idea about the loaded meaning […]
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This Mobius Strip of Ifs – Introduction
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This Mobius Strip of Ifs, a collection of essays by Mathias B. Freese, will be published later this year. Below is the book’s introduction written by Jane Holt Freese. We encourage reader comments and reactions. Happy New Year! Although we are passing ephemera, human lint on this planet in transit, it is a powerful […]
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Tunes of Glory, Fifty Years later
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Having seen Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, featuring Alec Guinness and the impeccably dappered and incisive Dennis Price with the usual suspects of English black comedy of the Fifties — Peter Sellars, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, et al, Jane and I have become dazzled by the Guinness portrayals. In 1958 I saw The Bridge on the […]