I still don't get it.
On 2/14/09, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
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> socialismorbarbarism wrote:
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>> Why "The Third Man"? (And I am unfamiliar with the rest.)
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> It's probably Welles' cuckoo clock line:
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> "You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the
> Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced
> Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
> had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and
> what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
>
> Miles
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