Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A Frenchman talking about love - fascinating or plain scary

Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile featuring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.

Just watched this movie. The best line of dialogue being the last line.

"The great ambition of women is to inspire love".

The original quote is by Moliere, a French playwright and actor from mid 1600's. Interestingly, the character Hercule Poirot, though he is from Brussels, Belgium, speaks good French.

It is precisely such thoughts, which on closer scrutiny turn out to be rather shallow, that fuel the already misled Casanova's of our times.

Would I be wrong in saying that the French are genetically flawed ?

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