Reflections by the Pond #420 (screen edition): A Brutish Devotion

Reflections by the Pond • No. 420 • November 9, 2009 o ne advantage to working at home is a greater reedom with lunchtime habits. In the amiliar surroundings o the home—as opposed to the oice, the grease rack in the lo- cal garage, the construction site downtown—one can partake o comorts generally convenient only to others ater their eve- ning quitting time. I like to watch old movies during my daily lunch period (it usually takes most o a week to inish one ilm). I have a particu- lar ondness or the movies rom the 1930s— those glamorous black-and-white escapes rom what was or many a desperate time. Recently I inished, or the umpteenth time, the original (sound) Tarzan movie, Tarzan the Ape Man, with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, made in 1932. The old ilm, made in a thoroughly di erent era, is o course replete with racial stereotypes and bigotry, and a orm a B r u t i s h D e v o t i o n a B r u t i s h D e v o t i o n Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their w ay upon the earth. ( Genesis 6:11-12)

Reflections by the Pond #420 (screen edition): A Brutish Devotion

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