Savant Nova

But Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism. -- Graham Greene, Haitian apostate

 “How unusual,”  a starved intellect made note of the fact, that a writer such as Graham Greene would turn to acting in serialized, grounded space opera like Defiance. This fascinated me as an early streaming viewer, not yet given over to the lassitude of despair, that an important legacy author of post-war Britain would turn to acting in his old age, more riveting than the plot itself to destroy counter culture libertarians co-habitating  with stranded aliens. The series was an inversion of the Roddenberry formula, darker, perhaps, not bad, and not quite realizing that indigenous Canadian aboriginals might also take on archetypal Anglo-Saxon names for themselves.  Jesus Christ what a moron.

Although I am not quite sympathetic to the novelist’s embrace of sacrament as penance in The End of The Affair  as received through Kerr’s charming performance, Greene the Englishman is more relatable by far in his morose lack of optimism than Greene the actor playing Parcheesi with the sins of neo-imperialism in blood strewn epics like Dances With Wolves. I hated Dances With Wolves, so declared in a deploring over-simplification of sentiment. Nevertheless-