Word: michaux
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...Western is a major achievement for Jarmusch, and an intense, sensual experience for the audience. While the William Blake theme is somewhat inconclusively handled, it does create a literary feel to the work which increases its intellectual potency. This is also true of the epigram from Henri Michaux which opens the film and gives it its title: "It is preferable not to travel with a dead man." Jarmusch explains this quote with an intriguing vagueness characteristic of his films: "I'm not exactly sure what that's supposed to mean...I'd like to have it on my gravestone...
...represents not just an attempt to concentrate black voters but also a bit of traditional gerrymandering, as the Democratic state legislature strove to avoid siphoning away too many black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting last year, they put Mel Watt, a black Democrat, in Congress...