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...heard other people from other parts of Ireland tell it and I realized that it was a sort of a folk myth about madness and the attitudes to madness and since More Bread Or I'll Appear is a book about genetic madness and how a family copes with it, I thought that she [the girl in the story] was an appropriate figure. She doesn't appear in the book, [except as] a ghostly figure that haunts them...an image that the children all have of this madness that they know is their lot in life...
...hard to tell the other side that they can't make arguments based on first principles and on morals," he said...
...Kubrick's work, as varied in subject and style as it may be, is an attempt to create something more than a movie. Kubrick was known for his attention to good storytelling in a screenplay, but the real impact of his films is not in the tales that they tell but the ideas they present. he has often been criticized as being too clinical in his treatment of troubling subjects, of not taking a moral stand against the problems he portrayed. But that distance Kubrick maintained from his subjects was perhaps his greatest strength. It was the distance...
...right when a group of anti-abortion individuals, a small minority of the population, scares people out of exercising what is currently a constitutional right. If you don't agree with abortion, that's fine. If you think it's wrong, that's your right. But don't tell me that your right to free speech enables you to harass, intimidate, and tacitly threaten with violence other individuals in society who are attempting to exercise their own rights...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...