In my twenties I tried watching every well-known movie title from the past and present I could lay my hands on, which is why I still have The Maltese Falcon on DVD, as was the custom in those days. My friend and I would have cineaste conversations comparing Huston's innovations in that movie to that of Welles's in Citizen Kane. I also watched How Green Is My Valley around this time and risked giving up my cineaste membership card by thoroughly enjoying it and saying so to the same friend.
Now you bring up this Flitcraft business. With two chronic illnesses and having taken up residence in the land of my mothers which only permits me to stay here as long as I have a job and can keep extending my work permit every year, it often feels like I have run out of opportunities for things to go wrong. I know this is wrongheaded thinking, but what can one do besides sit back in front of the TV, pour another cup, and wait for another bodily appendage to fall off?
interesting stuff, remember good stuff happens out of the blue, too. Everything good in my life seems to have happened unexpectedly.
In my twenties I tried watching every well-known movie title from the past and present I could lay my hands on, which is why I still have The Maltese Falcon on DVD, as was the custom in those days. My friend and I would have cineaste conversations comparing Huston's innovations in that movie to that of Welles's in Citizen Kane. I also watched How Green Is My Valley around this time and risked giving up my cineaste membership card by thoroughly enjoying it and saying so to the same friend.
Now you bring up this Flitcraft business. With two chronic illnesses and having taken up residence in the land of my mothers which only permits me to stay here as long as I have a job and can keep extending my work permit every year, it often feels like I have run out of opportunities for things to go wrong. I know this is wrongheaded thinking, but what can one do besides sit back in front of the TV, pour another cup, and wait for another bodily appendage to fall off?
I am the wrong person to offer advice on how to live one's life in the face of adversity, but I found this book helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Fall-Apart-Difficult-ebook/dp/B00BBXJH2C/ref=sr_1_1