[lit-ideas] Re: None Dare Call It Reason
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:34:26 -0500
For some weird reason I keep connecting the feeble recollection I have of
the "vase movie" w/ O. Henry....???
Julie Krueger
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> That does ring a bell, albeit very faintly. A movie ... black and white ...
> there were two vases, one genuine and the other fake. Somebody breaks the
> genuine one but is told by the owner that (s)he broke the fake one. Of
> course,
> that is false.
>
> Now I'll be up all night trying to remember the title and its actors. I
> think an
> actor who looks a bit like E.G. Marshall was in the movie. He was also in
> an old
> black and white in which a group of guys rent a store - mostly luggage - in
> order to be nextdoor to a bank. They proceed to tunnel their way into the
> bank.
> That's all I remember. Ah, the holidaying mind ...
>
> Seen more and read more than he will ever remember,
>
> Walter O.
>
>
>
> Quoting Veronica Caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > But one of
> > my paramount memories of trying to shape myself comes from a story I
> > read (I have no idea now where) about a very rich woman who gave a party
> > where one of the attendees broke a very ancient Ming vase. She greeted
> > his torrent of apologies with "Don't worry, it was just an old thing
> > anyway". I resolved then and there to be so unattached to material
> > things that I could someday be so gracious. It has made a difference.
> >
> > Ursula
> >
> > Thanks so much for sharing this. If you ever remember where you read it,
> I
> > hope you post it.
> >
> > Veronica
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:21 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: None Dare Call It Reason
> >
> >
> > > Loren Eiseley is one of my heroes as well...been on my ten best list
> since
> >
> > > the eighties. So many high points...I remember just now his story
> about
> > > running away (as a ten year old perhaps) from his deaf mother...and the
> > > regret he afterwards suffered. So much heart. So much grit. So much
> > > courage to face the things he'd done. Gave me courage....
> > >
> > > I spoke to my class last night about where we get our moral
> foundations.
> > > Church, community, peers, family all came up. But one of my paramount
> > > memories of trying to shape myself comes from a story I read (I have no
> > > idea now where) about a very rich woman who gave a party where one of
> the
> > > attendees broke a very ancient Ming vase. She greeted his torrent of
> > > apologies with "Don't worry, it was just an old thing anyway". I
> > > resolved then and there to be so unattached to material things that I
> > > could someday be so gracious. It has made a difference.
> > >
> > > Ursula
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Veronica Caley wrote:
> > >> Something written by Loren Eisley. As fine a writer as I have ever
> read
> > >> that goes right to the heart. The passage that I still remember from
> his
> > >> work was about a tree he and his father planted when he was very
> little.
> > >> Nearing the end of his life, he went back and looked for it. It had
> been
> >
> > >> cut down.
> > >>
> > >> This brought both of us to tears - he when he saw it gone and me when
> I
> > >> read it. I don't cry easily. If I did, I wouldn't be on this list.
> You
> >
> > >> really ought to be writing and writing.
> > >>
> > >> Veronica the fool, applying for a position with King Lear
> > >>
> > >>
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