ask me point blank

"Am I just some kind of a gauzy fruitcake? Am I just some kind of gullible freak who allows the core of his own being to be blown to the four winds?"

Crow T. Robot, MST3K, "Space Mutiny" (Season 9, Ep. 20)

here and now

The Paper Chase (1973)

authorial cop out

"I was dazzled, delighted. We spent a whole evening there, Maria sitting at our table and smoking, and it was all the Bohemian evenings I had ever read about."

Look at Me, Anita Brookner

"The old pattern still flourishes, because it was so complete, because everything here conspires to prolong it."

American Gigolo (1980)

Look at Me, Anita Brookner

"An interpretation of this is shown in our illustration of the Katsura Gardens in Japan (1636). The deepest layer is understood as the coarsest and the 'roughest' zone, while the levels as they rise become increasingly geometric and delicate. The topmost plane consists of a footpath made of square-cut paving stones. Pale in color and casually combined, they seem to 'float' over the dark background. The next level is created by a gutter of natural cobblestones imbedded in the lowest level, which is the soil itself. These graduated depths must, at the same time, be seen as a part of a greater whole. One is really not completely at the bottom until one reaches the water level to which the path leads, nor quite at the top before one enters the house with its geometric carpet pattern. This conception of the floor's span from top to bottom, from water and ground at the lowest level to the ordered geometry of the house at the highest level, is at the same time an interpretation of the difference between outside and inside. The outside bears the stamp of primeval nature, the inside is the seat of humanity and greatest perfection, a place 'in which the spirit alone prevails'."

"Texture and the Layer Effect," Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen

worth the wait

MAJOR GARLAND BRIGGS