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The Book of Laurence - 18 -
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“What most of you folks don’t get is that I’m fully
in favour
of intelligence and quite against fear.”
I was convinced that I had heard a real voice inside my head.
But was it the voice of a Deity? Which Larry?
I started thumbing through the channels on my almost-500-
channel universe. In rapid succession I watched Larry Bird
sinking foul-shots effortlessly on the ESPN Classic Network;
Larry David behaving like a healthy Wood Allen on HBO’s
Curb Your Enthusiasm; a lovelorn Laurence Olivier as
Heathcliff
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on Turner Classic Movies;
a B-movie-handsome
Laurence Harvey in his best role as the brain-washed SFC
Raymond Shaw in the original Manchurian Candidate
on the
History Channel; and so it went.
“Close but no cigar!”
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For a few minutes I wondered if
Larry King could be my new friend and imagined God;
wonderfully reassuring and soothing in his bright tie and
braces but he was so clearly too-able to switch effortlessly
from talking
somewhat seriously
to Hillary Clinton or
Donald Rumsfeld, to nattering with Rosanne Cash and
Madonna to be my sort of God.
I turned off the TV and fell into a restless sleep. Over the
next few days, I checked the biographies of every “Larry” in
Who’s Who in the World. I googled related strings such as
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"What do they know of heaven or hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life?" (Heathcliff in
Wuthering Heights).
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It is first recorded in print in Sayre and Twist's publishing of the script of the 1935 film version
of Annie Oakley (Wikipedia).
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