LP Hartley wrote ‘The Go-Between’ (1953), which was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter. The book’s opening sentence, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, has become almost proverbial.
(Thank you wiki)
Dammit, Zen! Stop nicking my best lines and go to bed. I actually have a copy of JRH’s ‘Fly Fishing’ on a shelf somewhere.
Nighty night.
OZ
I wish politicians had a bit more historical knowledge – they might find that their ‘new and wonderful’ solutions have all been tried and have failed before.
I wish politicians had a bit more historical knowledge – they might find that their ‘new and wonderful’ solutions have all been tried and have failed before.
Yes, appeasement to Islamic terrorist demands being the current horror story.
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You too Zen.
It sure is, and we still don’t heed them.
Night night Mr Zen, sweet dreams.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, LP Hartley
He of fly-fishing fame, Pseu?
No that was JR, I think you’ll find.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Hartley
LP Hartley wrote ‘The Go-Between’ (1953), which was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter. The book’s opening sentence, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, has become almost proverbial.
(Thank you wiki)
Dammit, Zen! Stop nicking my best lines and go to bed. I actually have a copy of JRH’s ‘Fly Fishing’ on a shelf somewhere.
Nighty night.
OZ
I wish politicians had a bit more historical knowledge – they might find that their ‘new and wonderful’ solutions have all been tried and have failed before.
Yes, appeasement to Islamic terrorist demands being the current horror story.
Thanks, Pseu, mistaken ID.
Zen, Barbary Corsairs spring to mind.