Before "The Triplets of Belleville" (which was a lot of strange fun), we saw the long-pending Dali/Disney collaboration (!) "Destino". It was about what you'd think, but i was glad to have seen it. And maybe this is what Dali's metamorphic paintings were actually evolving toward, only the technology hadn't developed quite in time. Someday i want to write about all the artists who preceded their media...

There is a moment near the end of The Man Who was Thursday (i am now rereading) when the five or six police detectives are fleeing, pursued by a crowd they think are anarchists, & themselves the last just men in the world. But the crowd is on their side & thinks the detectives are the anarchists. I let my fancy (for a moment) figure that tiny fanatical band of Red-assed Baboons, as if they believed their own rhetoric, beleagured by a world that is actually seeking only justice, but in Red-Assed Baboon eyes a rising tide of anarchy they must quell at all costs. It's all just a simple misunderstanding! --Then the moment passes, & all i can do is hope we will be rid of these prosaic brigands as quickly as possible.

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