Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We watched "The Hunt for Red October" last night.  In retrospect it was probably unwise, as we're feeling shut in and claustrophobic already.  And they smoked in a submarine!  It was nice to see everybody so young:  Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam O'Neill, Scott Glenn and others.  I miss Sean Connery, but respect his retiring and leaving the roles where a forty year younger babe is in love with him.  Gene Hackman also gracefully retired.  Anyway, it was a change to worry about nuclear attack instead of invisible viruses.  And it was a fairy tale happy ending.  Tom Clancy always takes us to the inevitable edge, then parachutes us out.  Yet you know the real ending would be darker than dark.  My husband loved submarines as a boy, and got to tour a nuclear sub as a prize for winning a physics contest.  He also made models of them in his basement.  So I was doing a kind gesture in deigning to watch with him.  Marriage:  it's all about the compromising.