since i'm immobile, i'm allowed to reply to my own post! i think the text in these two links is pertinent to the thread regarding bicycles and the bicycle industry. perhaps it's a metaphor for what will/has transpire(d) in our own playground. e-RICHIE
http://www.norapost.com/
http://www.norapost.com/
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:40:48 -0500 Richard M Sachs <richardsachs@juno.com>
writes:
> here is my view, by way of billy wilder...
> in the film 'sunset boulevard', the william holden character,
> (w.h.c.),
> inadvertantly ends up at the estate of 'aging' actress norma
> desmond,
> played by gloria swanson. in the storyline, ms. desmond was a star
> in
> the silent film era. early in the film, this exhange occurs on the
> winding
> staircase as the two characters meet for the first time.
>
> w.h.c. says:
> wait a minute, i know you, you're norma desmond. you used to be in
> the movies. you used to be big.
> norma desmond says:
> i still am big; it's the movies that have gotten small.
>
> classic content: you mean i have to spell it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> e-RICHIE