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I saw the movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre on TV a couple days ago. I don't think I ever watched it before. I decided to watch it partly because it is about treasure, but more importantly because it is a classic movie and novel. I wanted to see what made it such a classic.
Well, the treasure hunting (gold prospecting and mining) part wasn't totally realistic. The story turned out to be more about morality and human weakness and virtue, as treasure stories often are. It was accurate to the novel, but I think it lost something in the adaptation.
I guess what I took away from it is how often treasure stories have a moral, and that is often what they are really about.
If anything is a touchstone that reveals and proves the true nature of a man, it is treasure. When tested, some will be shown as fools gold, and others as pure. To put it another way, it is not the gold that is tested, it is man himself.
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Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You've probably heard that before.
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Another classic you might want to read is Silas Marner, which is a real work of art. A solitary miser buries his hoarded fortune which is stolen. Again, it is really about another type of treasure.
Another treasure story you might want to read is King of Golden River.
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An Israeli woman walking near ancient ruins noticed a head sticking out of the ground, leading to the uncovering of two Roman-era busts, archaeologists said Sunday.
The life-size sculptures, carved in limestone, were found in the northern city of Beit Shean earlier this month, with the Israel Antiquities Authority dating them to the late Roman period, some 1,700 years ago...
Here is the link.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/192073-181230-israeli-woman-stumbles-upon-roman-busts-amid-ancient-ruins
You never know what you moight see if you are out and about.
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A British man hit one of the largest lotto jackpots in the country’s history — but left the golden ticket unchecked for weeks in a pile of papers in his van, according to local reports.
Andrew Clark, 51, only checked the ticket because his partner and her niece badgered him after they heard about a local unclaimed prize, he told Sky News. “Trisha kept telling me to check the tickets, and her niece Louise, who I was building an extension for, was also in on it once she’d heard about the unclaimed prize in the news,” he said.
Here is the link.
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/british-man-finds-86-million-lottery-ticket-in-his-van
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Late-night (actually Dec. 20) stargazers in Cambridge, Minnesota and beyond may have noticed — or felt — a massive fireball that streaked across the sky earlier this week.
The meteor, which entered the stratosphere just after 2:00 a.m. on Thursday, passed over the city before heading east and going dark over Harris, observer and meteorite hunter Pat Branch, who works with the American Meteor Society, told the Star Tribune...
Here is that link for more about that.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/refrigerator-sized-meteor-zooms-over-minnesota-in-one-of-the-biggest-events-of-the-year
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I can remember sitting down and doing my first post of 2018. Doesn't seem that long ago.
Some things don't change with the years.
Happy New Year,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
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I can remember sitting down and doing my first post of 2018. Doesn't seem that long ago.
Some things don't change with the years.
Happy New Year,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
