16-11-2015, 09:16 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:Don't encourage me Maggie! :-)
My old man travelled to Havana a number of times in the 1950's during the time of Batista and the mob. I have a few stories, including the snakepit (I think it was called anyway), that was featured in one of the Godfather films...
:hock:: And here I was thinking your old man was a respectable medico quietly plying his trade in the midlands. I have a whole new view of your Guyatt ancestors now.
Tell me more!
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: You're thinking of my grandfather who was an eye surgeon at Moorfields. He was the one who helped Jews escape Berlin and Vienna 1938/9. It now looks like he was heavily involved in the Kindertransport - although I'm still trying to track this down in fine detail. My old man was a "snaps" - a photographer. Firstly in the RN Fleet Air Arm, and then after the war he plied his trade on the luxury boats of his era (QE, Queen Mary, Mauretania etc) in 1st Class (nice work if you can get it, I guess) snapping the rich and famous for a news agency. I still have some of the photos he took - Hollywood stars, heads of state, royalty etc - although sadly hundreds of others were thrown away when they moved later in life.
PS, love some of those clips you posted...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14