Friday, January 9, 2015

all or nothing, less is more

Catherine Breillat's room

"'If there were more there would be too many to convey the impression in which half the beauty resides -- the impression somehow of something deemed and missed, something reduced, relinquished, resigned: the poetry, as it were, of something sensibly gone.' Fleda ingeniously and triumphantly worked it out."


The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Oh Lord, let this be my motto:

"I in Thee, and Thou in me."

Saturday, January 3, 2015

living proof

The Paper Chase (1973)
"This is the unbroken chain. This is the ageless passing of wisdom... 'It's hard being the living extension of tradition.'"