The Big Sleep

[porphyry]

These are two consecutive lines in a little jazz ballad sung by Lauren Lacall in The big Sleep (not that she can sing, but who cares?):

And her tears flowed like wine,
That's right boys, she was one sad tomato.

Somehow I suspect this is evidence for the multiple authorship indicated in the film's credits working on a very minute level--I would like to think they were not written by the same man. Faulkner, incidentally, was listed first in the writing credits.




I missed the Louise Brooks biography last night...

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[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that just shows how little Classical languages and myth are understood anymore.

This was discussed on the Classics list, and not favorably.

Nyx is night, the mother of Charon: so far so good. They picked Hydra, becuase they evidentally thought the Hydra was the guardian of the underworld, rather than Cerberus. If that wasn't embarassing enough, while Nyx is Greek for night, Nix is Latin for snow (nox would be Latin for night), as in Nix Olympica, the large shield volcano on Mars.

But what really erks me as a failed astronomer (I could never have done the maths), is that we now know that 'Pluto' is not even a planet, rather Pluto and Charon (they are almost the same size) are the nearest and largest Kyper objects, rocky concretions of frozen gas that exist in a belt between the planets and the cometary belt. But of course anyone who discovers something about Pluto wants to insist its a planet because that will get their names in the paper. After all, who has ever heard of Rupert, the next nearest Kyper object?