22 — Wednesday, January 15, 1992 — North Shore News ? Be a man Eclectic quotes on the subject of maleness The Little Grey Flannel Book, Quotations on Men, Arsenal Pulp Press, $4.95 “ MASCULINE move- ment without qualification must be claimed by men. An excerpt from poet and manhood-guru Robert Bly’s /ron John? Oops, sorry. That was Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goeb- bels, quoted in this eclectic collec- tion of pithy pronouncements on the subject of maleness, drawn from the likes-of Goethe, Chur- chill, John Wayne and Germaine ° Greer, among others. Not to suggest that a fellow who wants to spend a weekend with the boys, wearing loincloths and warpaint, drumming and chanting in unison to get in touch with his own testosterone is necessarily a crypto-fascist, but as one “‘anon- ymous celebrity” quoted here observes: “I’ve been married toa Fascist and married to a Marxist and neither one of them took out the garbage.” (Hey, I’ve been a Marxist and a Fascist and ! always took out the garbage. If | didn’t, the dog would toss it around the place a la Jackson Pollock and without any canine-feminist politics.) “Set a thief to catch a thief.” So it is here: the women quoted John Moore BOOK REVIEW including such gems from Mae West as ‘Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you”’ and “tT Tike two kinds of men: domestic and foreign,” are com- paratively forgiving. Virginia Woolf's ““Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” merely proves she had racks in her pockets long before she took her final dive and she cbviously never rode the bus with a bunch of teenage girls. By far the most scathing . epigrams come from the mouths of such acid-tongued gents as George Bernard Shaw (‘The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.) and Samuel Johnson (‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’’) Husbands get a particularly close shave from Oscar Wilde (‘There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”’) and Balzac (‘‘The majority of hus- bands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.) You'll never be at a loss fora conversational ice-breaker with this little book in your inside pocket (where it might just slow down an incoming small calibre bullet). Imagine the effect when you toss this pearl from Nietzsche into the dinner party chat: ‘Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior.” (Don’t try this at home and don’t forget to duck.) it’s not all chuckles; consider the Palestinian men’s proverb: “Myself, my brother, my father, and my cousin against the world. Myself, my brother, my father against my cousin. Myself and my brother against my father. Myself against my brother.’ That pretty much puts the Middle East in an uncrackable nutshell, doesn’t it? My personai favorite comes from irish Jim Joyce: “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.’’ No better exit line has ever been penned for a man leav- ing in an indignant huff. Gotta go. My Huff's double- parked outside. Diplomatic Immunity wins prize at Cannes festival THE CANADIAN feature film Dilpomatic Immunity has won the top prize at the 25th Cannes Winter Film Festival. Director Sturla Gunnarsson and the film’s co-producer and screenwriter, former West Van- couver resident Steve Lucas, receive 50,000 francs, the equivalent of $10,000 cash. This year’s festival focused on women involved in political and ty, which took 10 years to make, is about a Canadian foreign diplomat who becomes involved in a crisis in war-torn El Salvador. The film was voted second most popular Canadian film at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Lucas, who grew up in North Vancouver and graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School, resides in Toronto. == —, BOOK SALE -E=r 25% OFF Every Book January 16. 17,18 & 19 ag cAmben Bookshop Led. HT oxcon Marine Drive, West Vancouver 926-1133 Ss Downstairs Live Crab cooked $43 Bean Ib. Sauce : January uary * Pile Special | Dim Sum $12 . Biack *Saturdays for month of January on 10 items.- ——_—__—™~ social events. Diplomatic Immuni- . SS a= NS s From Vine : To Wine, to you! STOP IN AND SAVE! 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