June 11, 2005

• Picture This

  In memory of film producer Fernando Ghia:

  “Among Ghia’s solo credits as a producer is

  

  ‘Lady Caroline Lamb,’ a 1972 period drama

  written and directed by Robert Bolt.”

  – Today’s LA Times

  Ghia died on June 1, 2005
  (the date of the Dutch “No” vote).
  In the spirit of Pale Fire, here is an excerpt
  from a Log24 entry of that date:

  The Road to Brussels “History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.”  — Henry Kissinger, quoted in      Drama of the Diagonal, Part Deux “Les livres d’histoire et la vie racontent la même comédie….“ — Alain Boublil Wellington at Waterloo livgenmi.com/gardiner85.htm  “Along the road from Ohain to Braine-l’Alleud that hemmed in the plain of Mont-St-Jean and cut at right angles the road to Brussels, which the Emperor wished to take, he [Wellington] had placed 67,000 men and 184 cannons.” – Fr. Libert, Waterloo

  In researching this entry, I thought of
  Wellington’s statement
  in “Lady Caroline Lamb” –

  “These are the Scots Greys.”

  
  
  
  and found the above picture.
  
  Related material:

  Women’s History Month.
  
  

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