"I know that you're nauseous right now and I'm hopin' to lead you to victory"

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

"...the glass floor is insecure from a psychological point of view as well. To walk over a void is like walking on nothing. It gives the same sensation of dizziness and falling as that which is felt on top of a mountain or high tower. The depth has a magnetic effect -- it 'sucks' us downward -- a phenomenon indicating that depth, just as all other types of space, is a potential sphere of activity which we 'try out' by 'falling'. The transparent floor conveys, therefore, a spontaneous feeling of insecurity and danger."

"The Open Floor," Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen
"Swimming Pools (Drank)," Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Kendrick Lamar

break it up

3 Women (1977)

"The mirrored floor gives no main directional indication of space-- one finds oneself in its centre. But, this centre is not a specific place on the floor, rather it is like the centre of a 'sphere' in which all directions are equal.... On the mirror floor we find ourselves, therefore, in the middle of what is in principle a homogenous and directionless space.... 

... The reflecting floor is an 'indistinct' mirror floor.... The reflection creates a belowness, one which shifts between light and dark in that objects, cieling and walls are transformed and converted into diffuse forms as they are reflected downwards. The characteristic has a counter effect on objects above the floor. Objects are optically detached and freed from the floor on which they stand. They seem to stand only on their own shadows."

Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen

"...one of those deviations by which man thinks to reconstruct himself."

The Paper Chase (1973)

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

what shocks the system

There Will Be Blood (2008)

"'I began to mourn for my spirit, and the spirits of all people who cast a shadow a long way beyond what they are, and for the beasts that walk out of the darkness alone; I began to wail for all the little beasts in their mothers, who would have to step down and begin going decent in the one fur that would last them their time. ... 

...And then at the child -- there was terror in it and it was running away from something grown up; I saw that she was sitting still and she was running; it was in her eyes and in her chin, drawn down, and her eyes wide open.'"

"Watchman, What of the Night?" Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

drama queen, "a dealer in second-hand"

Mr. Mom (1983)

"'Shut up,... Shut up, you don't know what you are talking about. You talk all the time and you never know anything. It's such an awful weakness with you. Identifying yourself with God!'"

"The Squatter," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

first, the burnout

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

"Two spirits were working in her, love and anonymity. Yet they were so 'haunted' of each other that separation was impossible."

"Night Watch," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

"With the fury of a fanatic he hunted down his own disqualification..."

Rocky (1976)

"From the mingled passions that made up his past, out of a diversity of bloods, from the crux of a thousand impossible situations, Felix had become the accumulated and single--the embarrassed."

"Bow Down," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

maybe tomorrow

The Big Chill (1983)

nothing fits

Wise Blood (1979) 

"If our actions take place below the ground, we become dependent on its characteristics, we are in the clutch of the ground. We are faced with primordial forces, the ground's own phenomena. To be beneath the ground means that we have left the near and familiar which is above the ground to enter into a lower region unknown and confining. The way in which the surface leads us down into the ground is, however, decisive for our impressions. If the surface cracks and breaks open, we 'fall'. The sensation of falling, of plunging through empty space is fraught with fear and danger. If, on the other hand, the earth sinks as in a trough, the ground follows long and we feel we are being 'guided' down."

"If the level of our actions is above the mass, our spontaneous reaction is one of independence. We are in control of the ground and liberated from the depths beneath. In this case a feeling of superiority may be the result. The scale of variations within this shared experience depends upon equally specific situations."

"Interplay in Nature's Floor," Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen.

The Ace of Cups

The Paper Chase (1973)

"I will drink of it in order to live; I will not rely on myself and be lost... Weak as I am, I shall draw near, for it is not the healthy who need the physicians, but the sick." (St. Augustine)

Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy, "203: The Invitation to the Banquet"

"in my breast-meat there is a famine"

Grease 2 (1982)

"'I consecrate myself entirely to You; invade me, take me, possess me wholly. Be the penetrating light which illumines my intellect, the gentle motion which attracts and directs my will, the supernatural energy which gives energy to my body. Complete in me Your work of sanctification and love. Make me pure, transparent, simple, true, free, peaceful, gentle, calm, serene even in suffering, and burning with charity toward God and my neighbor.'" (Sr. Carmela of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D.)

Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy, "189: The Descent of the Holy Spirit"

reserved for Hart

"When the contemplative life--considered as an assiduous seeking after union with God--is really fervent, it cannot fail to rekindle in the soul the burning fire of the apostolate. One who has experience, in an intimate contact with God, the ineffable reality of His love for men, cannot fail to burn with the desire to win all to that love."

Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy, "184: Mary's Apostolate"

farewell to the flesh

Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

"It is true, O Mary, that on the day of my baptism the Holy Spirit diffused His charity in me; but my self-love has halted its growth, and I who have so little love for my God, have likewise very little love for my neighbor. O most loving Mother, see how I need to have my heart dilated with charity! Stir up, then, and nourish that virtue in me and grant that, having given myself to the service of God, I may give myself to that of my neighbor, with kindness and humility, promptness and generosity."

Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy, "181: Mary and Fraternal Charity"

"It was easy indeed not to speak when the difficulty was to find words."

Chapter XV: Mexican Standoff

Chapter XVI: Two of Swords

Chapter V

Desert Hearts (1985)

"What had her whole life been but an effort toward completeness and perfection?"

Paper Moon (1973)

"What had taken place in her above all was that a long resentment had ripened. She hated the effacement to which English usage reduced the widowed mother; she had discoursed of it passionately to Fleda; contrasted it with the beautiful homage paid by other countries to women in that position, women no better than herself, whom she had seen acclaimed and enthroned, whom she had known and envied; made in short as little as possible a secret of the injury, the bitterness she found in it. The great wrong Owen had done her was not his 'taking up' with Mona--that was disgusting, but it was a detail, an accidental form; it was his failure from the first to understand what it was to have a mother at all, to appreciate the beauty and sanctity of the character. She was just his mother as his nose was just his nose, and he had never had the least imagination or tenderness or gallantry about her."

"With such a mother to give him the pitch how could he take it so low?"

The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James

showtime

Age of Summerhood (2013)

"Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed."

The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West

Sherman's "On the March"

Morning sun! Stiff brim!
On the county courthouse steps,
the beat reporter

waits for the story.
Sits down and dries out his flask.
Fingers his brim limp.

In court, on trial,
the bait from Park Avenue
pleads, "I'm so sorry!"

her hem full of staples

School Ties (1992)

An aged woman's
nude stocking rolled down her calf,
between knee and foot;

no ankle. Metal
and twelve year old yellowed foam
hold up her body.

Bull Durham, 1988

The lost Brady

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

Oh Lord, let this be my motto:

"I in Thee, and Thou in me."

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.'"

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