Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

I'm reminded of the amazing film from the 40's 'The Third Man' (screenplay by Graham Green) where Joseph Cotton, the hack USian writer goes over to post-war Austria to visit his long-lost buddy, played by Orson Wells, who is involved in dasterdly deeds in the black market there. And who could ever forget the evocative sound-track performed by 1 zither (talk about doing it on the cheap). When Cotton's character discovers the ramifications of his friends activities, he confronts him with it. Orsons's character explains that out of the corruption of Medici Italy, Leonardo Di Vinci was produced, while what came out of centuries of good government in Switzerland was the coo coo clock! Well, that was before Hoffman.

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