Oh, she definitely is. Immediately after her husband wins big at the roulette table (with Rick’s connivance), Renault chides Rick for ruining his plans. He very clearly had meant to extort sexual favors from the wife in exchange for the visas.
The animated show Bless the Harts is set in the fictional town of Greenpoint, North Carolina. I only just realized that the name of the town is a mash up of the two real NC cities of Greensboro and High Point. They have even mentioned on the show before that the town is in the Greensboro-High Point metro area. I even grew up in NC. I don’t know why I didn’t notice that sooner.
Your basic nuke back in the good old classical days was the brahmashira astra. However, it was not a go-to weapon most of the time, even against monsters, because if you used it against less than a god, or if you missed and hit the ground or something, it could destroy the whole world.
Which harbor? Although the movies set the attack by the sea monster in the harbor at Argos, the ancient story about it being petrified sets it in what is, I think, present-day Jaffa.(That’'s where Andromeda was princess, although other sources set her in different cities around the eastern Mediterranean).
Ok, I grant you I don’t have a source. I grant you that Rose doesn’t have a daughter. I grant you that the internet is full of the story where Rose says he wrote it about his girlfriend. I guess Rose is just a creepy guy who refers to his love interest as “child o’ mine”, i.e. my child.
However, I remain convinced I am smarter that Axl Rose, and that the song is actually a guy singing about his daughter. Just because Rose doesn’t realize that doesn’t make it false.
Possibly one of these is the same one spoken of in legend from thousands of years ago. In any event, the story told about a rock causing havoc in the harbor, and might have been written by someone who lived nowhere near there. Besides, as I note, other writers place Andromeda elsewhere.
In the Odyssey Poseidon is said to have punished the Phaeacians (who helped Odysseus, who Poseidon hated because he blinded his son) by turning a ship into stone and blocking the harbor. People have debated where Phaeacia was, with the top contender being Scheria on the island of Corfu. There is indeed an island (Pontikonisi) there that, if you squint, you might say was a petrified ship. But it’s not blocking the harbor.
I think the Greeks were given to hyperbole. At least about harbor-blocking petrifications.
Obviously the petrified sea-monster has eroded over the years, especially long narrow features like tentacles and necks. And as you say, there are plenty of rocks in that harbor. So clearly, one of them is the one Andromeda was bound to, and one (or more) of the others is the remains of the monster.
My song for my daughter is one I wrote when she was approaching her first birthday. She was still nearly bald, so part of it goes: I’ll always love you forever/Even if you never grow hair.
She did, ftr, and she hates when I sing the song in front of her friends.
Andy Dufresne, the one and only innocent man who is sent to live among those who are universally guilty. He shares his simple message of hope and living a life not being condemned for your transgressions, but for looking forward to what lies beyond. He descends into the worst possible filth and somehow emerges on the other side washed clean, where he goes to a bright and beautiful place… there he waits for the condemned and forgiven to join him.
I hate when people refer to Morgan Freeman’s Red as a “magical black man”. Red was the film’s protagonist - Andy was the “magical white man”, whose role in the story was to inspire and redeem the hero.
I just had this argument with my son a week ago… We see almost nothing from Andy’s perspective (prior to the mystery being solved) other than the music scene with the PA. And even then, Andy doesn’t say anything. Red’s story is the story arc here.
Yes, but Renault obviously has similar arrangements with many women in such circumstances, so I believe it is only speculation, mostly based on timing, that she was the next one in the door after Victor and Ilsa left.
