I was dreaming a great movie plot as I woke up this morning. It would probably have to be a Disney movie, as the principles were two early-teen girls. They were on their way to a Swiss finishing school: one with her parents, the other with a “minder.” The train on which they were riding had a car full of murder-detective game participants. A group of German soccer fans/players occupied the dining car. There was some mystery about an empty vase one of the girls carried, and something about having matching cameras. Then at a stop where the girls were allowed out for a bit of exercise, they were involved in an attempted kidnapping, thwarted by the soccer enthusiasts who were only too glad to have an excuse for a fight.
I woke up before a good denouement, but given the set-up, I can think of several good endings. So if y’all see this in a Disney movie next year, you’ll know where they got the plot.
The word of the day for January 13, 2007 is “raucous” — adjective 1 : disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse [raucous voices]. 2 : boisterously disorderly [a...raucous frontier town — Truman Capote].
Our quote for today is of Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960), British Labour politician. Quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1962):
His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.
;^)
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