was crazy and stupid when in reality, he was exceptionally smart and understood numbers the way no one else did. The third problem is the relationship between Charlie and his father. They hadn't spoken for years when Charlie found out that he had died. It was all because his father had punished him for ,,borrowing" his car. He took it very badly and left home. I think in the end he regretted the decision to ignore his father for all those years. There were many things left unsaid. The movie was great. I had seen it once before and it was nice to see it again. I think it touchedmany subjects that were important and are still important today.
281. Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. 282. Hope, when bold, is strength. Hope, with doubt, is cowardice. Hope, with fear, is weakness. 283. Man is given a definite number of experiences--economizing them, he prolongs his life. 284. Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim--to be able to be. 285. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. 286. In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. 9
At these assemblies, just to hear the sound Of so much gab, with not a word to say; And as a learned man remarked one day Most aptly, 'tis the Tower of Babylon, Where all, beyond all limit, babble on. And just to tell you how this point came in . . . (To Cleante) So! Now the gentlemen must snicker, must he? Go find fools like yourself to make you laugh And don't . . . (To Elmire) Daughter, good-bye; not one word more. As for this house, I leave the half unsaid; But I shan't soon set foot in it again, (Cuffing Flipotte) Come, you! What makes you dream and stand agape, Hussy! I'll warm your ears in proper shape! March, trollop, march! SCENE II CLEANTE, DORINE CLEANTE I won't escort her down, For fear she might fall foul of me again; The good old lady . . . DORINE Bless us! What a pity She shouldn't hear the way you speak of her! She'd surely tell you you're too "good" by half, And that she's not so "old" as all that, neither! CLEANTE
crying her eyes out and sitting alone in a room wishing to be anywhere but there. W h e n she is a little older and realizes she needs to protect the life of her child, she develops a will and applies it again and again until she accomplishes her goal. T h e language of movies and fantasy, particularly that of the Disney variety, tends to show us the magical power of wishing but often stops short at that point, leaving the other steps of the p y r a m i d unsaid but implied. Often fantasies are dedicated solely to exploring the mechanisms of wishing, developing the "Be careful what you wish for" concept to show that wishes might have to be refined or re-stated to adjust to reality, without necessarily evolving into the more powerful and focused mental state of willing an outcome. Sometimes an entire story remains in the wish mode by ending not with the development of a strong will, but the forming of a new