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"My hypotheses that this book has a quite low rating is: Unmet expectations. Well, with that kind of cover people will surely demand a world destruction, chaos and all. While in fact, the first half of the book is a corporate story. Think THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Only dealing with disasters. And I, bound by no such expectation, found this refreshing. And Rich's prose is flowing with charm." — Jul 19, 2015 07:02AM
"My hypotheses that this book has a quite low rating is: Unmet expectations. Well, with that kind of cover people will surely demand a world destruction, chaos and all. While in fact, the first half of the book is a corporate story. Think THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Only dealing with disasters. And I, bound by no such expectation, found this refreshing. And Rich's prose is flowing with charm." — Jul 19, 2015 07:02AM
“It is said that the human brain divides its functions. The right brain is devoted to sensory impressions, emotions, colors, music. The left brain deals with abstract thought, logic, philosophy, analysis.
My definition of a great movie: While you’re watching it, it engages your right brain. When it’s over, it engages your left brain.”
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My definition of a great movie: While you’re watching it, it engages your right brain. When it’s over, it engages your left brain.”
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“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“A real diamond is never perfect.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Movies do not change, but their viewers do. When I saw La Dolce Vita in 1960, I was an adolescent for whom “the sweet life” represented everything I dreamed of: sin, exotic European glamor, the weary romance of the cynical newspaperman. When I saw it again, around 1970, I was living in a version of Marcello’s world; Chicago’s North Avenue was not the Via Veneto, but at 3 a.m. the denizens were just as colorful, and I was about Marcello’s age.
When I saw the movie around 1980, Marcello was the same age, but I was 10 years older, had stopped drinking, and saw him not as a role model but as a victim, condemned to an endless search for happiness that could never be found, not that way. By 1991, when I analyzed the film a frame at a time at the University of Colorado, Marcello seemed younger still, and while I had once admired and then criticized him, now I pitied and loved him. And when I saw the movie right after Mastroianni died, I thought that Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal.”
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When I saw the movie around 1980, Marcello was the same age, but I was 10 years older, had stopped drinking, and saw him not as a role model but as a victim, condemned to an endless search for happiness that could never be found, not that way. By 1991, when I analyzed the film a frame at a time at the University of Colorado, Marcello seemed younger still, and while I had once admired and then criticized him, now I pitied and loved him. And when I saw the movie right after Mastroianni died, I thought that Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal.”
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