Flash Gordon Strange

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    What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    Tom: All right, boys. C’mon. Why don’t you say I’m a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
    Shep: You yellow? Who thinks you’re yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy who’s got the nerve to marry? That’s more than Flash Gordon ever did.
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    And had it been the dove from Noah’s ark,
    Returning there from her successful search,
    Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
    They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “You will go a long journey,
    In a strange bed take rest,”
    And a dark girl will kiss you....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)