Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says that even that has got to stand good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Barton Fink
I turned Frank on to Barton Fink this evening. He was transfixed, as I expected. So many themes. But, the most audible was, "you don't listen!" I have a "you don't listen!" story of my own. Comedic, too: Bill Mayhew: "When I shut my eyes, I can almost smell the live oak." Audry: "That's chicken fat, Bill." Mayhew: "Hmm. My olfactory's turning womanish on me -- lying and deceitful."
