[Oe List ...] "The Order"

[frank bremner]

Some further reflections before I go home and wash the dishes.  "For the 
first year, the boy chopped wood ....." and "Before enlightnment - chop 
wood, carry water.  After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water".

1)
"Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.  One of my favourite 
movies, one that I finally bought on DVD, is John Boorman's "Excalibur".  
Did he intentionally repeat the "hand out of the water" scene from 
"Deliverance" with the "hand and sword out of the water" scene in 
"Excalibur".  But one of my favourite scenes are those where Merlin (Nicol 
Williamson) and Arthur are together and Merlin is fudging his "magic".  In 
more recent times I've seen Williamson in Hamlet and so on.

Another scene:  Arthur is looking around in despair: "Where's Merlin?"  
"Coming out of the background into centre stage he comes, saying "THE (my 
emphasis) is here".

2)
I've since found my wedgeblade badge - the small one - that I couldn't find 
for R Brian's memorial service.  Time to put it on a lapel.  Which meaning 
shall I understand and speak of?  Standing between the no longer and the not 
yet?  Standing in the middle of the world (or cosmos)?  (But not being the 
centre of the world!)  Or the cosmos swirls around me?  Standing in the 
midst of time?  Dis-establishment linking pro- and dis- ?

3)
The actor Bryan Brown was one of R Brian's students back in his Christian 
Brother days.  I've decided to send a letter, with a copy of the memorial 
service etc, to Bryan.  It makes some sense of his involvement in social 
justice causes etc.

One of my favourite interviews by Andrew Denton in "Enough Rope" (ABC-TV), 
and it may be in one of the three (at last count) books of interviews from 
the program, was with Rachel Ward.  She suddenly burst into tears when 
describing her love for "this wonderful Cath .... Christian man".  Denton 
has a wonderful way of touching people's soul and affirming their response, 
which he did in that interview.

[For 20+ years I've had trouble with expressing emotion.  It's been 
"psychologistic", or "spilling your guts", or whatever cliche/slogan someone 
has wanted to use.  It's taking a long time moving on from allowing "pins to 
embitter us".]

'Nuff for now

Frank

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