Morituri

[waikikigun]

I sit down with my plate of ravioli for lunch and flick on the TV, TCM--Turner Classic Movies. The exact second I do so, Yul Brynner, a boat captain, barks out, "Someone get me a cigar!"

Being highly suggestible, I go straight to my humidor and make a selection, a fine vintage of 2 days ago.

A minute later they cut back to Capt. Yul, and he barks to someone else, "Light my cigar!"

So I light mine.

Next cut back to him, he gets angry and chucks his just-lit cigar overboard.

At this point, I demur.

Morituri, 1965. Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando, etc.

 

[CobGuy]

That's hilarious!

I recently watched a Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) film, "The House of Fear" and there was lots of pipe smoking and snuff pinching.

~Darin

 

[tullius]

I sit down with my plate of ravioli for lunch and flick on the TV, TCM--Turner Classic Movies. The exact second I do so, Yul Brynner, a boat captain, barks out, "Someone get me a cigar!"

Being highly suggestible, I go straight to my humidor and make a selection, a fine vintage of 2 days ago.

A minute later they cut back to Capt. Yul, and he barks to someone else, "Light my cigar!"

So I light mine.

Next cut back to him, he gets angry and chucks his just-lit cigar overboard.

At this point, I demur.

Morituri, 1965. Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando, etc.

This brief yet moving account leaves me with many important questions, the first of which is: what happened to the raviolini? Were they eaten or, che peccato, left lonely to languish? Egg, no egg, or yolks only? Semolina No. 1, 00, or regular flour? What was the filling? And what was the makeup of the very fine, very recent vintage cigar?

 

[waikikigun]

This brief yet moving account leaves me with many important questions, the first of which is: what happened to the raviolini? Were they eaten or, che peccato, left lonely to languish? Egg, no egg, or yolks only? Semolina No. 1, 00, or regular flour? What was the filling? And what was the makeup of the very fine, very recent vintage cigar?

Your questions are good ones. Yet you mention up front the salient points: keep one's writing brief and moving. And there is a third: leave some mystery.

 

[tullius]

Touché, la vérité.

 

[waikikigun]

Touché, la vérité.

Bien sur, comme toujours. ("Of course, as always," for you non-Canadians).