Word: darknesse
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The really significant revolt against reason took place 40 to 100 years ago. Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kafka's The Trial, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents-by comparison with these masterpieces, even the best among today's...
It's relief, then, to enter one of the sound stages, to slide open a heavy iron door and step into cool darkness. The gloom is thick, palpable, and you are aware of vast spaces above you. Gradually, as you become accustomed to the artificial dusk, it takes form. Cables...
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS, light out of darkness: you can't help thinking of it that way; it's irresistably symbolic, really heavy-handed. If you love the movies, though, this doesn't bother you; it seems appropriate, in fact, this mythic aura. Popular terminology is revealing: it is all...
But the truth is that is isn't often that way anymore. It is with the small production unit that the future--unromantic but highly efficient--of film rests. Where they have not been taken over for television, the studios are falling into disuse, mere relics of a fabulous past...
NIGHT is the best time to say goodbye. Faces are gentled by dusk; shadows of bitterness or of that can only be cast by the hard light of day merge and fade away in the wash of darkness. To bid goodbye in a dream: surely this gentle going is better...