gyrmination

I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post. First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest [...]

Bob brought home a dog. It’s actually composed of two ideas. Two menacing teeth pinch out into the air, like rodent mandibles on display at the airport gallery. It’s watching me by the glass door of some house. I can’t decide whether it’s waiting to welcome me, or standing guard against me. Bob goes in. [...]

The following comes to mind: 我知道我就要开始回忆 像烟花绽放后留下黑影 不肯散去 It’s a phrase from Sunrise. It roughly translates as: I know from now on I can only think back to those memories Like the darkness left by fireworks Unending I’m watching, and I can’t help but think that fireworks embody the importance of being in the herenow. [...]

I reach for my metrocard. You gotta be kiddin’ me. Pat pat, pat pat. Oh shit. It’s gone. My wallet. The Jamaican mama occupying the ticket booth must have cottonballs up her ears, she takes so long to respond to my plea for help. When I tell her my wallet is missing, she barely hides [...]

On my whiteboard: Religious Hatred => How do we determine which thought to respect? Half-erased, it’s been sitting there since I read a Harper’s article on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy more than a year ago. The essence of the question I intended to explore was, what are the criteria for thoughts and beliefs we [...]