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...made it clear I couldn't take the course: "In this scene, Blanche Dubois is the Uberfemme. She is a stereotype of herself, creating her own moral universe." Blow-by-blow reenactments of romantic encounters between friends, delivered directly to my inbox-most of which are quite hysterical in retrospect (but don't tell them that until the 25th reunion; they won't take it well). A mention of my first 5 a.m. fire drill, when I suddenly learned that I am among the .01 percent of Harvard students who do not wear glasses. A memo about a friend...
...indulgence--like eating fancy chocolates before bedtime. Ross's achingly good performance gives the movie an emotional core. There's a well-acted scene in which Ross's character is asked if she has any regrets. Are there any choices in Ross's long career that she would, in retrospect, like to change? Her answer is immediate: "No." Hollywood should have the regrets...
...deeper unknowable, though, is who you were before the guns locked you into a sentence. The only question that ever ought to matter to my colleagues and our customers is the one we do not ask except in retrospect, after the guns or the scandal: Who are we all in silence--at a table in the cafeteria, at a table in the library? What can journalists tell others about the mind we all share, the innocent mind and the murderous? That is the real news of your death. That is the news I want to remember next week, when Kosovo...
Maybe Eric and Dylan suffered from some organic psychosis that even the most loving and attentive parents couldn't cure. Maybe the signs that seem so obvious to us now, in retrospect, were well obscured in the Harris and Klebold homes. Teenagers are good at hiding their true selves--or the selves they're trying out this month--behind the "grandma face" they wear when they're trotted out to see the relatives. Behind that pleasant mask there can be volumes of bad poetry, body piercings and tattoos...
...must we enter the new century in a state of ignorance? There is no shame in that. All previous centuries have been justly proud of their achievements, yet those have been found, in retrospect, to be deficient. We must learn to be patient. We should also discard the idea that scientific inquiry will ever be complete. What we know so far is that each question answered merely spawns another. Why should it not be like that for the rest of time...