Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tested by its screams. One has the choice to hear or not to hear; to detect location or not to detect location; to discover cause; to help or not to help. Along the many lines of choice, excuses and mistakes are possible, even reasonable. One is left with oneself and the screams, like two opponents. The Kitty Genovese case of 1964 keeps coming back, in which a young woman in Queens screamed for help, and everybody heard, and nobody helped. What were we to do? Edvard Munch's famous painting of The Cry keeps coming back, equally scary and bewildering...
...story with elements of samurai adventure and Sergio Leone western, and then has the actors play it straight. Amazingly, it's a satire that involves the audience in the action as much as the characters themselves. When the noodle senseis test her progress after a few weeks, one finds oneself as tense and nervous as if one were watching a shoot...
...willing to tolerate ambiguity almost indefinitely. "Another way to say it is idiocy or a total lack of concern for oneself. Things work out, and if they don't you can always get a job at a restaurant...
...painting of the aged mother, or a play called The Aged Mother, or an essay in a magazine. Swathed in the shapeless dress, the indefinite hairdo, she has become something to be noticed and attended, as if she were forever on the verge of vanishing lest one remind oneself to look in on Mother. (And how's your mother...
...receiving "so much love that I forget myself" perhaps for Greaves and Rader the ideal romantic relationship is one characterized by self-love and continuous concern only for oneself. This seems to me hardly the picture of a healthy relationship; on my view, love begins at the moment when the well-being of the other becomes an independent value. This is certainly a form of "forgetting" oneself, but in no way a vicious one. Only through this sort of "forgetfulness" is it possible to be conscious of others in the most profoundly empathetic way, and this deep connection is completely...