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Golden Fleece

The Lives of Harry Lime · October 12, 1951 · 27 min · 3,822 words

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presenting Orson Welles as the third man. Fives of Harry Lyme. The fabulous stories of the Amorjo character originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zugamusic by Anton Carus. That was the shot that killed Harry Lyme.

He died in a sewer beneath Vienna. As those of you know, who saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that was the end of Harry Lyme. But it was not the beginning. Harry Long had many lives.

Like him, I crowned all of them. How do I know? Very simple. Because my name is Harry Long. The third man in today's story, The Golden Fleece.

Well, it's a queer story. No matter how you look at it, it begins with a bullfight. It ends with a naval engagement on the giant sea. There's a woman in it, of course. Have another drink?

All right, if you are. Two gin things, boy. Yes, sir. Two gin things. It all started in the little seaport of Algis Cirrus. Like every other town in Spain, there's a bull ring. I don't know how you feel about bullfights, but if it's Sunday in Spain, it's a little hard to stay away from them.

A bullfight is to Spain, what an operator is to Italy. It's the only thing in the country that starts on time. I'd been dawdling over my shellfish and beer, so I got into the second fayina.

So Daddita was in the ring. He was younger than and braver than he is now, but I've never been one of his fans too much ballet dancing for me, and I'm not bullfighting, but we won't go into that.

I could talk about the corridor all night, but I promise you a story about adventure on the high seas beginning right now So did either is dedicating the ball. He is paying this compliment to the lady who was seated next to me For the first time I glanced at her and the glance freezes into a stare

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