Ma in un giorno di settembre del 1921 cessarono le risate. D’un colpo, quello che era stato un divertimento innocente, venne denunciato come “un’altra orgia di ubriachi a Hollywood”, ovvero “un altro sconvolgente esempio di depravazione sessuale”.
Le nostre risate cessarono il giorno in cui Roscoe Arbuckle venne accusato di aver provocato la morte di Virginia Rappe.
[Buster Keaton, cit. da Quel Giorno Smettemmo di Ridere, di David Yallop, Tullio Pironti Editore, Napoli Settembre 1987]
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he’d picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.
[Douglas Adams]
VIVAMIRANDA 