Thoughts for the day

On movies--
American movies are far more directed at an audience of arrested and indulged children than a society of alert, responsible, challenged adults.

On writing--
I suspect that all English people have a sneaking liking for sentimentality.

Ouote for the day "It is a wonderful thing about women, they can love people who are ugly. They see something deeper than beauty. We men can't do that.".......Axel Munthe. Author of The Story of San Michele.

As I watched the London bombing I thought of something said by St. Augustine..."Not the punishment but the cause makes a martyr."

Last, but not least, I tried to watch The Passion of the Christ, too much screen violence and too much camera lingering lovingly on wounds.
I am a writer severely out of key with his time.