Ten thousand one millimeter

Jayne 2022-01-13 08:01:20

Nordic movies are almost a unique genre, which reminds me of extreme day and night, China’s Tibet, the disconnection of communication caused by the geographical distance between people, people live like plants and turtles, and good days are scattered like stars in distant places. Between the gaps, they are always in memories of the last event and expectations for the next event; everyone is a Catholic, even when eating a big meal, they hang their hearts on their throats, as if to deal with A trial. They are afraid of even a millimeter of displacement in their ideas, because every displacement is an earthquake. This is not because they are in a crystalline structure. Only in this culture, a person can wait. In another 30 years, except for the increase in wrinkles on his face, he/she has not changed much, and he/she still retains an intact heart when he is old...

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  • General Lorens Löwenhielm: This is Blinis Demidoff! And this most certainly is Veuve Clicquot 1860!

  • General Lorens Löwenhielm: One day in Paris, after I'd won a riding competition, some French officers invited me out to dine at one of the city's finest restaurants, the Café Anglais. The chef, surprisingly enough, was a woman. We were served cailles en sarcophage, a dish of her own creation. General Galliffet, our host for the evening, explained that this woman, this head chef, had the ability to transform a dinner into a kind of love affair, a love affair that made no distinction between bodily appetite and spiritual appetite.