Archive for July 31st, 2006

Annie Hall

31Jul06

Finally, a Woody Allen movie that lives up to the billing. Quirky and funny and strangely profound. My two favourite quotes from the movie (which is quotable all over): The other important joke, for me, is one that’s usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud’s “Wit and Its Relation to [...]

Decline and Fall

31Jul06

I had a lot of train-riding to do yesterday (to and from Wood Green to get the whey, and to and from Osterley for FB), so I decided I would finish Evelyn Waugh’s “Decline and Fall”. It was shaping up to be a decent read, light and funny but nothing outstanding, until the very end, [...]