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| In the movie Operation Mincemeat,
the nearly true - to - life Winston Churchill makes the fictionalized observation: “I applaud the fantastic. It has many advantages over the mundane.” I love the way this cat, radiating Eternal Sunshine has chosen to live smack- dab in the middle of the fantastic! |
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd".
from "Eloisa to Abelard"
by Alexander Pope -- or Pope Alexander
[as so sweetly blundered by Kirsten Dunst]
In a movie full of insights,
this mild exchange provides strong caution
against erasing bad memories:
Kirsten Dunst / Mary:
Q: How did I look?
Mark Ruffalo / Stan:
A: You looked happy.
After re-watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
I was inspired to review my favorite lines from Dan Brown
~ The Da Vinci Code ~
Chapter 62, p 266:
“In my experience," Teabing said,
"men go to far greater lengths to avoid
what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
I sense a desperation in this assault on the Priory.”
~ Angels & Demons ~
Chapter 37, page 137:
Remember! she told herself. Remember the solution to this test!
Remembrance was a Buddhist philospher's trick. Rather than asking her mind to search for a solution to a potentially impossible challenge, Vittoria asked her mind simply to remember it. The presupposition that one once knew the answer created the mindset that the answer must exist . . . thus eliminating the crippling conception of hopelessness. Vittoria often used the process to solve scientific quandaries . . . those that most people thought had no solution.
Chapter 45, page 173 - 174:
Vittoria sensed she was starting to come unhinged, an alien distress she recalled only faintly from childhood, the orphanage years, frustration with no tools to handle it. You have tools, she told herself, you always have tools.
“Terrorism,” the professor had lectured, “has a singular goal. What is it?”
“Killing innocent people?” a student ventured.
“Incorrect. Death is only a by product of terrorism.”
“A show of strength?”
“No. A weaker persuasion does not exist.”
“To cause terror?”
“Concisely put. Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within . . . causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government’s façade of infallibility, and you remove its people’s faith.”
Loss of faith . . . ”
Is that what this was all about?
