converged on the frenetic theme of self-loathing. how many different ways could you say "I've got a contribution to make, look here!" followed soon after by "I'm an undeserving no-count no-talent bastard"
Read morealways, when you criticize
ask yourself whether the criticism would just as easily (or better) apply to you. for the instinct for it after all didn't come out nowhere..
Read morewhat’s clear
is that we didn't have this warm and fuzzy time together in college. so let's just say we're a group of middle-aged sorrowful people wanting to reconnect on some basis, and let's make that basis our need right now, not some fiction
Read moreSpavined
Interesting wordsThe high water markOf opportunities to use themHas it comeIf so why wasteThe time to look them up.
Read moreour narcissism as a country
having do with our, in the past century, have absolutely NO frame of reference. everything we have done has been VIRGIN TERRITORY. Brand new industrial technical society. It's not like we can look back 2000 years and say yes, this was done before, and we're just peaking between troughs. But of course it HAS all…
Read morefame as infection
self-regard wrested from self.of course the alternative is isolation. think of conrad's nostromo–horrible didacticism but that image of losing sense of self adrift under merciless sun
Read moreart =
needbe crushed by the need, enfeebled, flee it, bury itor meet it
Read morechapters in film – bildungcinema
1. shyness2. cowardice3. greed4. lust5. dysfunction of the above6. the city7. the dogooders8. the family9. the country10. the career
Read moreMovie: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
kept you strung along, but it had that kind of static mechanized quality of much of late Allen (last 20 years…) where the characters were ultimately looked down upon, judged on their folly, and simply instrumental to a worked out plot. characters never overflow it, control it. that said, it was very entertaining. Vicki Christina…
Read morefilm capturing the moments of retirement
of various people. the weightlessness. the drear to follow
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