Henri Désiré Landru (April 12, 1869 – February 25, 1922) was a French multiple killer and real-life “Bluebeard”. During World War I, Landru started to contact Parisian women through newspaper ads published in the lonely hearts sections. They usually read: “Widower with two children, aged 43, with comfortable income, serious and moving in good society,… Read More Landru
Mrs. Robinson And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson Heaven holds a place for those who pray, hey hey hey… We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files We’d like to help you learn to… Read More Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
For God’s sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are, you’ve got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won’t be home for hours. Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film which tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), recently graduated from college with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross). Ben returns home to… Read More The Graduate
“LAPALISSIAN” Monsieur de la Palisse est mort Est mort devant Pavie Un quart d’heure avant sa mort, Il était encore en vie. (*) On 24 February 1525 Jacques de La Palice, a French nobleman and military officer died during the battle of Pavia, while fighting as a Marshal under Francis I. That battle, fought on… Read More M. de La Palice (1470 – 24 February 1525)
CANTICLE On the side of a hill in the deep forest green. Tracing of sparrow on snow-crested brown. Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain Sleeps unaware of the clarion call. On the side of a hill in the sprinkling of leaves. Washes the grave with silvery tears. A soldier cleans… Read More Scarborough Fair/ CANTICLE (4)
Habitable Exoplanet Discovery On 22 February 2017, scientists working at the California Institute of Technology for NASA, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting around a single star –a red dwarf at just 39 light years away. This star is small, and shines with a… Read More Habitable Exoplanet Discovery
JOHN KEATS Born in 1795, John Keats is one of the greatest English poets and a key figure in the Romantic movement. He died in Rome on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery. As he had requested, his tombstone bears the words, “Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.”.… Read More John Keats (1795 – 23 February 1821)
Scarborough Fair: analysis Are you going to Scarborough Fair: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. This very old song is about a young man instructing the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series… Read More Scarborough Fair: analysis (3)
Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker, described as “an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later”. “Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.” “Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That… Read More Luis Buñuel (22 February 1900 – 1983)
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