Monthly Archives: February 2018

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his own pictures.” –Henry Ward Beecher “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” –W. Somerset Maugham “Artists … Continue reading →

Jeremy Brett as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson in the outstanding Granada series, available on DVD.

At Reichenbach Falls in “The Final Problem” when Holmes and Moriarty accidentally plunge into the waterfall as they fight one another to death.

“The center of the universe is still the self.” –Henri Frederic Amiel “Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.” –Patricia Hampl “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” … Continue reading →

“To change is to live…to live is to change…and not to change is to die.” –Tennessee Williams “We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished…”–Martin Luther “In three … Continue reading →

“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Perspective: The proper study of mankind is books.–Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

Average no. of times smartphone-users check their phones per day.

This is the first and best Poirot movie Ustinov made back in 1978. Ustinov is in high gear as his nuanced humorous self and so this adaptation never gets as serious as its predecessor Albert Finney’s Poirot in Murder on … Continue reading →

Example of Understatement: (line from a dream last night) “Life is a bit of a gamble.” ………………………………… Well, there you go. The proverbial roll of the dice especially in personal choices and decisions. We do make (up) our own lives … Continue reading →

“With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs”–James Thurber