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This individuality, which was both Babel's genius and his death warrant, comes through best in his tales of old Odessa. In them, Chekhov's melancholy, Maupassant's detachment and Gogol's grotesque wit seem to fuse into the unmistakable Babel voice. It is a voice that can be heard most simply and clearly in You Must Know Everything, the title story of the collection. Considered to be his earliest known fiction, the story was discovered in manuscript and published in the Soviet Union...
...power of religion fades, moral values disappear into the formless, indiscriminate carp-mouth of technological progress. Inevitably, old spiritual terrain is left unprotected. Pseudo philosophers, crypto-religionists, pyrotechnical polemicists (all fuse and no bang) are bound to move in. The key question for all religions is how to cope with and justify the control over man of a universe that appears to be spectacularly indifferent. Death is the most conspicuous example of such control...
Vision to Inspire. Any director must master formidable complexity. He must be adept at sound and camera work, a soother of egos, a cajoler of artistic talent. A great director has something more: the vision and force to make all these disparate elements fuse into an inspired whole. In The Seventh Seal, Bergman had Death lead a troupe of clowns, obedient to a will larger than their own, across the dusky horizon to oblivion. The scene, still indelible in the minds of most viewers, somehow lifts cinema into the realm of philosophy, psychology and even religion...
...four dates in one day. You don't play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffe and you have a synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...
...four dates in one day. You don't play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have a synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...