NOT THAT THE
MOMENT MATTERS
Not that the moment matters, but here I
sit again. Dressed in my scarecrow costume.
Watching something out this flimsy window:
a farm trucks slow by, and then a lumber
wagon. The sawmills get blessings around
here. The occasional little car tries hillsides.
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In the 1930's, the little people of the land
used to say 'We can dream, can't we!' - with
film and celluloid nightmares everywhere.
Garbo said 'I want to be alone.' Most others
wanted banknotes.
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Last night the wind was blowing once more,
all night, and hard. Things got tossed about :
It was unnerving but pleasant too. And of those
same 1930's, and their crazy crowds-in-cinema,
Barthes said: "...to that moment in cinema
when the apprehension of the human
countenance plunged crowds into the
greatest perturbation, where people
literally lost themselves in the human
image." That's what close-ups were
all about.
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Make your mind and heart completely blank.
Make your mind and heart completely blank.
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