Friar Duck and the lack of flowers - The Monday Morning Memo

Filmed by the Lumiere Brothers 121 years ago, this is a Sunday afternoon in Paris in 1900.

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This little excursion in time was sent to us by alert rabbit-holer Barry Skidmore.

“…Then there is the kind of Christmas with presents piled high, the gifts of guilty parents as bribes because they have nothing else to give. The wrappings are ripped off and the presents are thrown down and at the end the child says – Is that all? Well it seems to me that America now is like that second kind of Christmas. Having too many THINGS they spend their hours and money on the couch searching for a soul. A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and Nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.”

- John Steinbeck

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