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(as played by Sylvester Stallone in the famous movie)
Yes; the Stallone movie was based on Rimbaud's poem "Worst Flood."

Speaking of Worst Floods, here in the Kingdom 2025 isn't looking too bad for the Ping River -- although a few days ago rainfall became heavy here in New City -- but I happened on this page on the website of one of Bangkok's English-language dailies. I was intrigued for several reasons:
  • It's the first time I've been offered a choice of Male or Female narration. Both voices are obviously computer-generated. The "Male" doesn't know about leaving pauses between words. (Four voices are offered altogether: Both English and Chinese -- but not Thai? -- are available.)
  • Both Male and Female pronounce Thailand's major river (the Chao Phrya, pronounced "Jao Pai-ya") as "Chao Frai-ya." Yikes!!
  • We're approaching the critical months when the dryness of the Central Thailand plain cannot be guaranteed. The Sirikit Dam, which collects water from the Nan River is at 83% capacity; the Bhumibol Dam collecting from the Ping is at only 63%. I'm sure the present government, if any, has learned its lesson from the catastrophic floods of 2011, and is now using these giant flood-control structures for ... flood control 8-).



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Morrison was hugely influenced by Rimbaud, as were the beats.
 
I like Rimbaud but from what I've read he was quite the prick. He has a great piece about this girl he liked and her smelly socks, which he covets. Very much in the tradition of Swift, Lord Rochester, Rabelais. Funnily, I just read an article by Christopher Hitchens in which he explains James Joyce's scatological inclinations, and the obsession with handjobs and wankery in Ulysses.

Rimbaud stopped writing poetry completely at twenty.
 
We could make this a thread about Rimbaud, Morrison, and beat writers. :)
 
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