Orlando Furioso. The Odyssey. The Aeneid. George MacDonald's _Lillith_. _The Man Who Was Thursday_, done in a mock-engraving style. (Perhaps it would look something like the Richard Williams _A Christmas Carol_.) There are wonderful, out-of-copyright ideas which can find their realization in animation.

Off-topic, but this is a marvelous article. And God bless Mr. Roocroft! https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

"Updating" makes me gag. I can't remember a single good updated remake of a classic.

Kermit and Fozzie are missing.

I hope I am unique. I really don't like most of the Beach Boys. I recognize their artistry, but the sound is too lush, too full. I like "Barbra Ann" because it sounds rougher (and I understand the skill it took to make it sound so rough).

Well, Meow The Jewels _has_ to be better than Shh! The Octopus.

We are having trouble fighting Ebola, with all our information. The Plague is more or less overcome, partially because of knowledge we only got in the 19th and 20th centuries. The diseases of fear and scapegoating are still alive and among us.

I used to have a pet cat named Eric. He didn't appreciate it.

A good Spoon River poem was spoiled for me by the offhand mention of "my dog Nig."

You don't have to apologize. Especially not for real life. I know someone whose father had just died of cancer. His English teacher had him recite in class "Full fathom five thy father lies." It still stings him.

My mother watched it with me. I loved Laugh-In. It has ruined my life.

Sounds like my childhood — though that was my brother.

Does that comment represent approval or disapproval?

From Pittsburgh. To this day my Dear Friend points to a certain house. "That's where Miss Janey lived before she committed suicide.

A bright little kid — his father was from India, a professor of something-or-other — used to live next door to us. When I was babysitting him, he would ask, "May I play Dukes of Hazard?" I would ask, Why not! "It's wery wiolant." I told him he had my permission. He set up two matchbox cars so they faced each other,…

Buy motion-sensitive lights for the exterior fixtures. Trim back the hedges. Put flowerpots on all the outside ledges. Security is easier and cheaper without a home security system.

Moe Howard.

I feel the shows embraced modernism too completely. To quote an epigram: "Not 'Are you saved?' but 'Brother, are you normal?'"

Room 222!

Not just "Insight," but "Not Just Sunday," and maybe even Bishop Sheen. But the first two fit into this '60s modernism phase of "common faith."