Anger takes up, crudely, two forms. The testosterone-fueled anger turns into aggression; the other one turns into self destruction.
A conversation between Fran Lebowitz and Toni Morrison. If Fitzgerald lived to old age, it would only get worse (in terms of writing talent), Lebowitz said. Morrison said, but he wrote The Crack-Up. It was written before he died, Lebowitz said. He was in his forties at the time.
The Crack-Up, Fitzgerald. "vitality doesn't take". Interesting point: the person to whom he preaches vitality - at the same time the one being mocked - is a woman.
Kuno walked into the classroom. She also laughed - which shocked Hoshino. He is on the other side of the question. vitality doesn't take.
If you died twice in Okinawa, you should stop being a Miyoshi student. Fuck it, you know. But she comes back. How could she? She still plays piano beautifully. Vitality doesn't take. But how, why?
Hence the movie really is about this. The better lot of us keeps the music going, on and on. They are on the other side of the problem.
Still,
“It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn't exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?”
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