Showing posts with label Flitcraft Parable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flitcraft Parable. Show all posts

Saturday, August 27, 2016

August 27, 2016



Lunch the other day, pretty good stuff.



The Maltese Falcon available on-demand. I've seen it countless times but keep going back. The book has an interesting side-trip of no value to the plot except the insights it gives to Sam Spade: referred to as The Flitcraft Parable.

"The life he knew was a clean, orderly, sane, responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out between office and restaurant by the accident of a falling beam. He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them."



Bush and Stockton. Where Miles Archer was shot.



More specific: Burrit Alley, just off Bush Street above the Stockton Tunnel.



Star Trek Beyond is on tap for tonight. First two were watchable.