V was a year behind me in high school. She was one of the most attractive girls I knew, and I was on the inside track because she was a friend of my sister. When I asked, she was kind enough to accept my invitation to the high school dance. V- was a lot less than impressed, however, when I arrived at her house to collect her wearing a leopard-skin tuxedo.
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The Duel
Posted in The Duel with tags ABC Radio National, AFL, high school dance, leopard skin tuxedo, The Head on February 22, 2024 by Jarrod BoyleThe Duel
Posted in The Duel with tags Jonathan Hobbes, Krishnamurti, Marcus Aurelius, meditations, Patricio Manuel, Philosophy, Sam Peckinpah, stoicism, The Wild Bunch, Yuval Noah Harari on February 5, 2024 by Jarrod BoyleI re-watched Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch recently. Like all ‘great’ works of art, you see different things every time you look at it, and it gives the appearance of changing as you do. In part, the film is concerned with ageing.
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