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Which book have you read more than any other? The author Johann Wolfgang Goethe read Shakespeare in English and asked his Jena friends to translate his texts into German. He read Marlowe Dr Faustus. Credit phb TITLE: The Aussie Bond That Never Was: Sam Neill and the Road Not TakenSLUG: aussie-bond-sam-neill-road-not-takenEXCERPT: Sam Neill screen-tested for James Bond in 1986 but lost This essay asks what a life gains by staying, deliberately, unfamous.CATEGORY: Philosophie & GesellschaftTAGS: sam neill, james bond, jurassic park, new zealand cinema, antipodean cinema, stardom, obituary, bond university, Gold Coast, Robina LANGUAGE: EN Call him the Aussie Bond and you would already be wrong twice over Sam Neill was never Australian, and he was never Bond. He was born in Omagh, raised in Christchurch, and forged, in the late 1970s, on the same New Wave that gave the world Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong,  a wave that ran through both New Zealand and Australia so freely that audiences abroad, then and now, rarely bothered to distinguish the two. The only Bond with a genuine claim on this coastline, one might note in passing, sits twenty minutes inland at Robina, chartered on reinvention and polish of its own, though it asks for tuition rather than a Walther PPK. That confusion is, in its own way, the story. The Screen Test In 1986, with Roger Moore gone and the franchise anxious,…

What’s one habit that has improved your life the most? I start working when other people still sleep. I eat only when hungry. I do not go shopping when hungry. I am walking (nordic) without snow. I stopped talking. These are some of the few habits (atomic) that saved me time. And last one for the day (Quote): I do not have time for you now, sorry  ... I might have time for year later like next year. If you like this, let me know. Am busy enjoying my last few years. Kindly from OZ The Wizard. ---I. The RiverNick Adams goes back to the river alone. Not to fish, not really — the trout are almost an alibi — but because something in him needs the discipline of a task performed exactly, in order, without hurry: pitch the tent square to the ground, drive the pegs true, boil the coffee the way his father once did, or did not, we are never quite told which. Hemingway never says why the boy has come back changed from the war he never names in *Big Two-Hearted River*. He shows us the burned-over land instead, the grasshoppers blackened by fire, the trout holding themselves motionless against the current in the one pool of clear water. The wound is never mentioned. It sits below the surface of the prose the way the trout sit…

How do you handle fear and self-doubt? Nothing to fear, as I have lived happily 76 full years, so ready to go any time. I am busy and have retired🙏 I do not get bored. I am reading all the books I bought and have not read. I am blogging on Higher Education and Life Skills. I have a good camera. I have a most beautiful wife from Brazil. We have 4 daughters here in Australia and 8 grandchildren. I do not doubt myself at all. I studied 2 full years school psychology and became a counsellor in different High Schools in North Germany and in Namibia. I followed a Goethe and his works and went to Weimar to visit the Bauhaus and the Goethe and the Schiller House. Become who you are was Goethe's Life Motto👌 His Star was Jupiter. His birthday was 28 Aug 1749. My birthday was 28 Aug 1949. WW2 was lost by the Nazis, when Hitler shot himself! Since I learnt to read and write, I have never been bored. Self - doubt is something I have not even thought about, why should I? There are good therapists at the Gold Coast. If I had any self doubts, I would consult a very experienced woman to help me. Beach walking whenever I feel angry or tired or exhausted. Weekly 50 km since I retired in 2015.…

What topics do you like to discuss? There are no topics, I would not discuss. My only problem is a time issue: I spend 8 hours resting per day, 8 hours working, id est reading and writing or cleaning my home or garden or caravan or car or boat or my pool. 8 hours with my beautiful wife and our large family here in Australia, including eight grandchildren. Another large family with two sisters and a mother approaching 100, as born 17 Sep 1926. 100 guests I would guess in the middle of Holstein in Germany, where I was born in 1949. Means I will be 77 in Aug 2026. Counting the years, my dear old mother plus myself, 177 years … Time flies too fast. So no topics I find boring, no time for small talk. Only a few minutes per day. Curious? Good | Different Linked

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. I fell in love in Australia with Maria Ines born in Rio, Brazil. She had four beautiful daughters. As my contract in QLD in Brisbane was terminated, I asked her to come with me to North Germany for a few years until I would retire as a High School Teacher. She had not doubts at all. She gave up everything in QLD at the Gold Coast and went with me to North Germany to start our new life as a couple. We married later in Germany and have since then been a married couple living now at the Gold Coast again. Her four daughters with partners and children and the two of us have now formed a large Australian and German and Brasilian Family of 17 very happy human beings aged 18 to 76 years of age. In Aug 2026 I will be 77. Published by Peter H Bloecker Retired Director of Studies (Germany). Linked Credit phb

How would you improve your community? Knock at the doors of me new neighbours, one by one. Then see who slams the door and who wants a 10 min chat. Then trying to get to know my neighbours, one by one. Then an X - mas street party though summer at the Gold Coast. A wine fest in winter. Kids most welcome for sure. No kids, no fun. Grandchildren? Yes, why not? Age means getting tired early. No brainer? Too true, blue! Aussies are not Ossies. Good, indeed! Happy Easter from Gold Coast OZ Jena | Best friends Schiller & Goethe discussing Democracy The Wizard What is a Knight Bus? Kindly yours Peter H Bloecker