Venus

I just finished watching that wonderful movie, Venus, with Peter O'Toole. He was incredible. In some ways, it seemed like a retrospective of his career. In that sense, it's not unlike The Shootist, John Wayne's last movie. It was an homage to what he was and what he still was, even at the end of his career. I recently watched Lawrence of Arabia after not having seen it for decades. O'Toole dazzled me all over again in that movie. e e cummings came to mind as I watched the film: "Jesus/he was a handsome man."

It makes me wonder if all old men have one last foolishness over some young girl that they need to go through before their lives are over. God, I hope so.

One also thinks of Yeats: "Ah that I were young again/And held her in my arms."