Re: Droog on Rialto

[Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>

Alfredo wrote:
> 
> Last night, I saw a new TV show that featured
> Malcolm MacDowell as an Humanities professor.
> In one scene, one of his students became upset
> with him and stormed out of the lecture hall,
> saying, "I'll see you on the Rialto, professor."
> I don't have access to news:rec.org.sca to find
> out the answers to the questions this raises:
> 
> * Was this a reference to the SCA?

Probably not. It was probably a reference to meeing one at a place
for a duel, but I'm guessing here. Rialto being a bridge in Italy
(can't recall where exactly), it is my guess that duellists would
meet one another there to settle their differences. Of course, this
is often what happens on rec.org.sca (more ofen than necessary
sometimes), and it could have been a nod to the SCA. You never
know what SCA people are lurking around the corners in various
jobs.

> * Is, "see you on the Rialto" a current
>   studentlich catch-phrase, like "tschuss"?

I doubt this even more than the above.

> * Does Moby Dick really represent evil?

No, Ahab represents evil. Moby Dick represents that illusive material
object that drives some people to give up everything to posess that
which can not be posessed. He is the essence of what the Hindi call
Maya, the material world. That is, of course, existentially speaking. ;-)

In service,
Corun

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