When Night is Falling (1995) was not a particularly great film, but I often return to some of its ideas. When Camille, who has mistakenly taken the laundry of a (female) circus performer, decides to wear a revealing shirt to meet a reverend at the divinity school where she teaches, she tells her fiancé, “Martin, […]
I had bad dreams last night. Something had happened–a natural disaster perhaps. We were looking for a place to sleep. Imagine it: a city full of people suddenly homeless and wandering in herds like sheep, looking for an empty house still standing, a bed. The strange thing is that we found them. Someone was with […]
Life goes on. It’s easy and also difficult to live, because the change is complete, total. The feeling of mourning is heavy. Azar Nafisi said in her book Reading Lolita in Tehran: “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place… like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll […]
I understand that motive for murder, but I don’t want to understand it. It’s horrifying. The impression of evil is very heavy. There is no greater harm than giving our suffering to another.
I told you my friend was murdered at the end of October. The night of Halloween, in fact, when I was thirteen. Because of this, October is difficult for me. Most years I wait for November like the turn of a messiah. Near October 31, life is slowly getting easier and less painful for me. […]
Mourning is a process. We now understand that there is no order to it. However, bereavement involves stages that allow the bereaved to reformulate his life without the deceased. There is denial, anger, sadness, depression, acceptance. The stages of grief are well-known now. However, in the case of a death in which the manner of […]
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