Have you seen "The Third Man," with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Valli and Trevor Howard? The superb screenplay was written by Graham Greene. The zither sound track is a stroke of genius. Here is Roger Ebert's review of this "Great Movie." http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-third-man-1949
As the baffling plot begins to clarify, Harry Lime (played by Welles) offers Cotton this advice: "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Lao Tuz (Laozi) held that "the profoundest truths are paradoxical." (Lionel Giles translation)
Pax tecum
Alan
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