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Jack Judge 1878-1938

Harry Williams 1874-1924

It's a long way to Tipperary,

It's a long way to go;

It's a long way to Tipperary,

To the sweetest girl I know!

Goodbye, Piccadilly,

Farewell, Leicester Square,

It's a long, long way to Tipperary,

But my heart's right there!

It's a Long Way to Tipperary (1912 song)

10.30 Carl Gustav Jung =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1875-1961

Ein Mensch, der nicht durch die H�lle seiner Leidenschaften gegangen ist,

hat sie auch nie �berwunden.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never

overcome them.

Errinerungen, Tr�ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962)

ch. 9

Soweit wir zu erkennen verm�gen, ist es die einzige Sinn der menschlichen

Existenz, ein Licht anz�nden in der Finsternis des blossen Seins.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle

a light in the darkness of mere being.

Errinerungen, Tr�ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962)

ch. 11

Jede Form von S�chtigkeit ist von �bel, gleichg�ltig, ob es sich um

Alkohol oder Morphium oder Idealismus handelt.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol

or morphine or idealism.

Erinnerungen, Tr�ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962)

ch. 12

I do not believe....I know.

In L. van der Post Jung and the Story of our Time (1976) p. 215

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen Machtwillen, und wo die Macht den

Vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates,

love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

�ber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the

Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

Alles, was wir an den Kindern �ndern wollen, sollten wir zun�chst wohl

aufmerksam pr�fen, ob es nicht etwas sei, was besser an uns zu �ndern

w�re.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first

examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be

changed in ourselves.

Vom Werden der Pers�nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932)

in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

Pers�nlichkeit ist h�chste Verwirklichung der eingeborenen Eigenart des

besonderen lebenden Wesens. Pers�nlichkeit ist der Tat des h�chsten

Lebensmutes, der absoluten Bejahung des individuell Seienden und der

erfolgreichsten Anpassung an das universal Gegetene bei gr�sstm�glicher

Freiheit der eigenen Entscheidung.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate individuality of a

particular living being. Personality is an act of the greatest courage in

the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the

individual, and the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions

of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom of personal

decision.

Vom Werden der Pers�nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932)

in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 195

Eine gewissermassen oberfl�chliche Schicht des Unbewussten ist zweifellos

pers�nlich. Wir nennen sie das pers�nliche Unbewusste . Dieses ruht aber

auf einer tieferen Schicht, welche nicht mehr pers�nlicher Erfahrung und

Erwerbung entstammt, sondern angeboren ist. Diese tiefere Schicht ist das

sogenannte kollektive Unbewusste ....Die Inhalte des pers�nlichen

Unbewussten sind in der Hauptsache die sogenannten gef�hlsbetonten

Komplexe ....Die Inhalte des kollektiven Unbewussten dagegen sind die

sogenannten Archetypen .

A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly

personal. I call it the personal unconscious. But this personal

unconscious rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal

experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper

layer I call the collective unconscious....The contents of the personal

unconscious are chiefly the feeling-toned complexes....The contents of the

collective unconscious, on the other hand, are known as archetypes.

Eranos Jahrbuch (Eranos Yearbook, 1934) p. 180

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11.1 Pauline Kael =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1919-

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster,

are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of

movies.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) "Note on the Title"

She [Barbra Streisand in What's Up, Doc?] does her own shtick--the rapid,

tricky New Yorkese line readings...but she doesn't do anything she hasn't

already done. She's playing herself--and it's awfully soon for that.

New Yorker 25 Mar. 1972, p. 122

11.2 Franz Kafka =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1883-1924

Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas B�ses

getan h�tte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet.

Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything

wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) opening sentence

Sie k�nnen einwenden, dass es ja �berhaupt kein Verfahren ist, Sie haben

sehr recht, denn es ist ja nur ein Verfahren, wenn ich es als solches

anerkenne.

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it

is only a trial if I recognize it as such.

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) ch. 2

Es ist oft besser, in Ketten, als frei zu sein.

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) ch. 8

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Tr�ume erwachte, fand er sich

in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself

transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis, 1915) opening sentence

11.3 Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Gus Kahn 1886-1941

Raymond B. Egan 1890-1952

There's nothing surer,

The rich get rich and the poor get children.

In the meantime, in between time,

Ain't we got fun.

Ain't We Got Fun (1921 song; music by Richard A. Whiting)

11.4 Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Bert Kalmar 1884-1947

Harry Ruby 1895-1974

Arthur Sheekman 1891-1978

Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour...which is probably more

than she ever did.

Duck Soup (1933 film; said by Groucho Marx)

If you can't leave in a taxi you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon,

you can leave in a minute and a huff.

Duck Soup (1933 film; said by Groucho Marx)

11.5 George S. Kaufman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1889-1961

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

In Scott Meredith George S. Kaufman and his Friends (1974) ch. 6

11.6 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

George S. Kaufman 1889-1961

Moss Hart 1904-1961

The man who came to dinner.

Title of play (1939)

11.7 George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

George S. Kaufman 1889-1961

Morrie Ryskind 1895-1985

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas

I'll never know.

Animal Crackers (1930 film; said by Groucho Marx) in Richard J. Anobile

Hooray for Captain Spaulding (1974) p. 168

Driftwood (Groucho Marx): It's all right. That's--that's in every

contract. That's--that's what they call a sanity clause.

Fiorello (Chico Marx): You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus.

Night at the Opera (1935 film), in Richard J. Anobile Why a Duck? (1971)

p. 206

11.8 Gerald Kaufman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1930-

Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly

described as "the longest suicide note in history."

Denis Healey Time of My Life (1989) ch. 23 (describing the Labour Party's

New Hope for Britain, published in 1983)

11.9 Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Poetry in motion.

Title of song (1960)

11.10 Patrick Kavanagh =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1905-1967

I hate what every poet hates in spite

Of all the solemn talk of contemplation.

Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight

Of being king and government and nation.

A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king

Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.

Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), "Inniskeen Road: July Evening"

Cassiopeia was over

Cassidy's hanging hill,

I looked and three whin bushes rode across

The horizon--the Three Wise Kings.

Soul for Sale (1947) "Christmas Childhood"

Clay is the word and clay is the flesh

Where the potato-gatherers like mechanized scarecrows move

Along the side-fall of the hill--Maguire and his men.

Soul for Sale (1947) "The Great Hunger"

That was how his life happened.

No mad hooves galloping in the sky,

But the weak, washy way of true tragedy--

A sick horse nosing around the meadow for a clean place to die.

Soul for Sale (1947) "The Great Hunger"

11.11 Ted Kavanagh =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1892-1958

Cecil: After you, Claude.

Claude: No, after you, Cecil.

Catch-phrase in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49)

Can I do you now, sir?

Catch-phrase spoken by "Mrs Mopp" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49)

Don't forget the diver.

Catch-phrase spoken by "The Diver" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49);

in ITMA 1939-1948 (1948) p. 19, Francis Worsley says: This character was a

memory of the pier at New Brighton where Tommy [Handley] used to go as a

child....A man in a bathing suit...whined "Don't forget the diver, sir."

I don't mind if I do.

Catch-phrase spoken by "Colonel Chinstrap" in ITMA (BBC radio programme,

1939-49)

I go--I come back.

Catch-phrase spoken by "Ali Oop" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49)

It's being so cheerful as keeps me going.

Catch-phrase spoken by "Mona Lott" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49)

11.12 Helen Keller =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1880-1968

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy

for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.

My Religion (1927) ch. 6

11.13 Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I'm forever blowing bubbles.

Title of song (1919)

11.14 Florynce Kennedy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1916-

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

In Ms. Mar. 1973, p. 89

11.15 Jimmy Kennedy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1984

If you go down in the woods today

You're sure of a big surprise

If you go down in the woods today

You'd better go in disguise

For every Bear that ever there was

Will gather there for certain because,

Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their Picnic.

Teddy Bear's Picnic (1932 song; music by John W. Bratton)

11.16 Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jimmy Kennedy 1902-1984

Michael Carr 1904-1968

South of the Border--down Mexico way.

South of the Border (1939 song)

We're gonna hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line.

Title of song (1939)

11.17 Jimmy Kennedy and Hugh Williams (Will Grosz) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jimmy Kennedy 1902-1984

Red sails in the sunset.

Title of song (1935)

11.18 John F. Kennedy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1917-1963

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy [Joseph P.

Kennedy]--"Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be

damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."

Speech in Washington, 1958, in J. F. Cutler Honey Fitz (1962) p. 306

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that

things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Speech at White House, 27 May 1961, in New York Times 28 May 1961, p. 39

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.