{"id":1324,"date":"2013-05-25T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-05-25T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T03:40:50","slug":"25-may-2013-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"25 May 2013 – Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Even a man who’s pure of heart and says his prayers by night,\u00a0will become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and and the autumn moon is bright.”<\/p>\n

Maria Ouspenskaya said that eight years before her death in the 1941 film The Wolf Man. You might ask why this is important. I don’t know either but it is one of those things that get stuck in one’s head and are prone to wind up on a blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to a minor correction to my recollection of the famous line (I recalled it as “and the moon is full and bright”) the Wiki entry for Ms. Ouspenskaya offered the line said to the dying Wolf Man (played by Lon Chaney.)<\/p>\n

“The way you walked was thorny, though no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will have peace for eternity.”<\/p>\n

Who writes screenplays with that sort of language anymore?<\/p>\n

A few things to think about on this day of the full moon and the weekend of Memorial Day 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Maria<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Even a man who’s pure of heart and says his prayers by night,\u00a0will become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and and the autumn moon is bright.”
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