“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”—Mark Twain. “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Johnny Rotten, announcing the break up of The Sex Pistols. My name’s Middlerabbit, I’m 48 and I’m a pessimist. Not because Mark Twain told me…
Tag: William Goldman
By Hull Central Library I Sat Down And Wept. Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love ‘2001’.
Until Star Wars, I thought people went to the cinema to weep. It did strike me as an odd thing to do but so did a lot of the other, apparently normal, things that normal people did. Normally. The first film I was taken to see at the pictures was ‘Snoopy Come Home’ at Hull…
