Re: To love and to be loved is/are the most...

"Pat Durkin" <durk183@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We do indicate some things as "joys", you know, if you need a shorter
word. There was a Brando film "The Inn of the 6th Happiness". I never
did hear what all the particular happinesses were--a specific kind of
sexual giving? Or maybe purchasing? Or enjoying? I think it bored me
silly, so maybe it was where a lot of starving people sat around making
other people happy who would come and feed them, or bathe, etc.

This was a British film, made in 1959, starring Ingrid Bergman,
about a working-class English girl determined to become a
missionary in China. The 6th Happiness is a Chinese literary
reference, as is normal in titles, cf. Ingmar Bergman's film The 7th
Seal (citing the Book of Revelations.) No doubt the Chinese
literary reference was explained in the film script.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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