The Decay of Contemporary Culture

Humberto 2021-11-13 08:01:24

I thought Tracy would tell woody fuck off bluntly at the end, but I didn't expect the ending to be so tender.

the decay of contemporary culture, a city falling in the eyes of intellectuals. Woody is full of narcissistic sense of justice, gossip is the new pornography, infinitely raising the level of problems, refusing to accept the fact that cars, sleeping pills, television, and dating herself with a female school; Mary has deceptive rhetoric to describe the fall of feelings, constantly stacking The vocabulary of literature and art attempts to analyze one's own emotional state, but such an attempt is like a show.

"I came from Philadelphia, my parents have been married for 43 years, nobody is cheating on anyone".

Is it to attribute everything to Manhattan?

The person who makes the most excuses for herself is the writer: professor, editor, writer, journalist. In terms of her mind and kindness, she is not as good as a seventeen-year-old high school girl-although she seems to be just a beautified girl. Symbol: not many words, quiet, ideal like Cezanne's apple.

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  • Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.

    Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

  • Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."