Movie: In The Good Old Christmastime. "The Shop Around The Corner."

Of the romantically starcrossed Jimmy Stewart being accused of being bowlegged, we can only remember Eisenhower's cryptic warning about the Military-Industrial complex, which JFK and LBJ would later milk-enthusiastically.  If DDE was King Philip, then JFK thought he was an Alexander, and LBJ a Nebuchednezzar, later to go crazy after the writing on the wall: PSSH, thought to be bowlegged.

The director's favorite film of his own.

"He stole that from Victor Hugo."

Mataczek's Roadside Super Emporium is where lovers meet.

It's Budapest, baby, its Christmastime, and the only Five Folds we got this time are the imported pig skin wallets that both Jimmy and his colleague work on, to get that from the girl as a romantic present.

"I can prove I'm not bowlegged.  Let's go out on the street and I'll pull up my trousers."

More Western optimism, but this time in Budapest, invading the near East, with a new kind of imported pig skin bi-fold in place of the five fold path, these are clerks, my friends, and Pepe has that kind of Horatio Alger hard-on for career advancement, and twisting the knife, romancing the dollar....

...forgetting the perfume.

"roast goose filled with apples..."

It was a more civilized age, and a man and woman could get at the meat of their souls together in the medium of the handwritten word, with one cherry-picking witty quotes out of a treasure trove of memory, and another ad-libbing beautifully.

My pen pal girl, makes me sing a little of the Francis Bacon, maybe, and in the interim, bottom-up ontology dictates that my venerable old bard be discarded in place of 90s music, maybe, and in the end, she was put-off the music box and steered expertly by no less than two clerks into opting for the imported pig skin.

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