WHAT????


No one knows the answer to #2 ... ?????


Tatia was going to sit back quietly and let everyone else jump in there and enjoy Bulwer-Lytton's great Bob Birthday Quiz ....


BUT ....


No one knows the answer to #2 ...?????


Well, this is definitely a sad state of affairs.


The answer is:

The WAR LORD!! The WAR LORD!!

(As in Chuang-Tzu, a.k.a. The General.
You remember - the cute one with the pony-tail and red robes,
that you may have noticed Tatia has a mild affinity for
.... yes, yes, THAT War Lord .)





As to being a 1000 years old ... I'll quote directly from the script here ....


CHUANG
My family have been rulers in China for a thousand years. A whole history of activity around the chairs. I am the last child in my family. With me the line runs out. And the game is over.

(softly, looking at the sky) - Almost dawn. Another half hour. I am a thousand years old, Mr. Robinson. If I were to marry a woman ... not Chinese, my soldiers would leave me. They have sworn an oath to serve me until death, but that would break it. I am not engaged in war any longer, not even in battle. This is a holding action. A habit, a winding down. It can only end in defeat. The Englishman's money will prolong it. No more than that.

(To Kelly directly) I do not want her here when it happens ... when it ends. These are the reasons you are taking her out, and these are the only reasons.

and later

The area is swarming with them by now, for miles.
(back to Kelly, cold, hard) Mr. Robinson, do not let a thousand years go for nothing.

Kelly returns his look with great compassion and respect for this amazing man.

KELLY
(hard, military: a lieutenant to his General) No, sir.

SCOTT
(urgent) We gotta go, Kel.

CHUANG
(weakening) - Take her. Go. That is an order.

Kelly picks up Katherine, slinging his Browning over his shoulder. He stands for an instant, looking down at the General.

KELLY
(quiet) - Goodbye, sir.

In another moment, Scott, Kelly and Katherine are gone.


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I hope I have been of some value here, my Lord!


As always,
Tatia (& Chuang-Tzu, too)


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