re-mix

You know, I think it works:

"There are two works that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable hero, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Random Harvest

Random Harvest is a fun little film, which we saw partly because of Terry Carr's Fandom Harvest, and partly because we'd been watching an episode of As Time Goes By and they made a reference to it.

Some quotes:

"Miss Hanson."
"Yes, Mr. Rainier."
"Owing to lamentable weakness of character I'm having lunch at the Savoy -- with your approval, I understand."
"I thoroughly approve."

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The character Smithy, speaking to a Registry clerk about his newborn son:

"You can form only a very inadequate picture of him from what I've given you."
"I'll have to struggle along."