Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passage of days; their passionately sought goal is the finding of their own, true voice. "The further you go in writing the more alone you are," says Ernest Hemingway. "The time to work is shorter all the time, and if you waste it, you feel you have committed a sin." Anarchic Henry Miller notes that "the point I discovered is that the best technique is none at all," and argues, "A writer shouldn't think much." T. S. Eliot is in agreement about technique but cautions, "It's not wise to violate rules until you know...
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...