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)

    When the cross blue lightning seemed to open
    The breast of heaven, I did present myself
    Even in the aim and very flash of it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    a strange being leans over her
    and lifts her chin firmly
    and gazes at her with executioner’s eyes.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)