What price hath sanity? Playing out a Elmer Gantry Pentecostal flock of 50 humans and their minister feeding into his earliest yearnings for recognition in the classroom.... morphing thru his aging into convoluted brain waves across six continents.
II
Is this William Jennings Bryan’s sound and fury for the Bible Belt’s take of how evolution should be taught in those same regimented classrooms our minister sat at his desk buying into William Jennings pathology.
Frederic March without Florence Edridge? Indeed!
Where is our Clarence Darrow ? Spenccr Tracy advocating open mindedness and a decency calming the anguish and despair of heart broken survivors....parents uncles aunts brothers sisters sons and daughters.... grandchildren..
Their memories of those 2700 plus mortals who were ambushed in the aftermath of the twin tower cold blooded mayhem. The flower petals floating in the pool... the snap shots before evil struck.
Let those convoluted brain waves think it thru with a quiet mind and a non aggressive
stance...... instead of lashing out as the Fuhrer( Charlie Chaplin) burning the books as an aftermath of Kristalnacht’s maddening conspiracy.
III
Our better selves are called upon to recognize the risks that demagoguery can do in this struggle where humans in and out of uniform are at stake in a ideologue of suicide bombers. .
Cambodia Vietnam Korea the 39th parallel... Chinese hordes behind the line......
IV
Calibrating with the law of depreciating returns as Roger Federer saw in his semi final demise...his vision of a “Greek god” ending.
Being tested by his nemesis. .. the 23 year old Serb... third ranked Novak Djokovic wasn’t sleep walking his own aggressive dream.......
Federer taking nothing for granted in his ...... was eked out of a berth in the finals. Fighting it out in 5 sets the Serb won seven five in the 5th.....reaching deep into his soul for the controlled power of a Pancho Gonzales and the inevitable “w”.
Give someone else a chance, Roger. As someone else said the ferocity of a 29 year old genius’s perfection gives way to its evanescence, .a metaphor for our own ephemeral lives.
Right mom? Right
You’re a class act and have nothing more to prove (Kim Clijt4ers)
The Big Apple’s 9/11 into the United States Open’s own.....Flushing Meadows. 2010.
