ATDTDA 713

[Monte Davis]

robinlandseadel linx:  

> Cue Zither: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo

Egg-zackly. The Ferris wheel in the Prater was built in 1897, inspired of
course by the one at  the 1893 Chicago exposition. One resonance of one of
the great riffs in Harry Lime's speech there, 

"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had
warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock."

is that the Austria of "The Third Man" is well on its way to becoming, like
Switzerland, a quaint atmospheric backwater in the eyes of the newer Powers.
For that matter, in Greene's novella the French and British occupiers of
four-power Vienna are keeping up appearances, but painfully subordinate to
the Americans and Russians. All Zone fans should know both film and story,
which contributed a lot to GR. 

Wonder what the Washington, DC version of "The Third Man" will be?

And will it be in Mandarin or Hindi?

"Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet.
Lest we forget-lest we forget!"