I love it when someone tells me the truth: "If you want Camus, well, read Camus." I cannot think of a time in my life, however dismal, however ebullient, that I have not wanted Camus.
I liked Lerner’s 10:04 quite a bit, and parts of The Topeka School were great. (I wonder if it’s partially because Lerner and I are close contemporaries in age and background.)
[[The Drama is a real story that reworks genre stereotypes to think about how we can live with the unclarity of the people we love. It may be that we can never be fully clarified as individuals, but that does not make an aesthetic of “unclarifiable unclarity” a suitable means of dealing with life, nor does it suggest a philosophy of absurdist nihilism.]]
-- because we never truly know either ourselves or those we love the most, life is about forming a stable set of relationships with people we choose to know intimately but not wholly truthfully, and observe the rules of the game in order that we can be happy with this. Maybe this is what love and companionship is about.
Sorry, but I had the opposite reactions. The Stranger was beautifully done in every way. The Drama was painfully contrived, visually uninteresting, and poorly acted.
I love it when someone tells me the truth: "If you want Camus, well, read Camus." I cannot think of a time in my life, however dismal, however ebullient, that I have not wanted Camus.
I liked Lerner’s 10:04 quite a bit, and parts of The Topeka School were great. (I wonder if it’s partially because Lerner and I are close contemporaries in age and background.)
[[The Drama is a real story that reworks genre stereotypes to think about how we can live with the unclarity of the people we love. It may be that we can never be fully clarified as individuals, but that does not make an aesthetic of “unclarifiable unclarity” a suitable means of dealing with life, nor does it suggest a philosophy of absurdist nihilism.]]
-- because we never truly know either ourselves or those we love the most, life is about forming a stable set of relationships with people we choose to know intimately but not wholly truthfully, and observe the rules of the game in order that we can be happy with this. Maybe this is what love and companionship is about.
Sorry, but I had the opposite reactions. The Stranger was beautifully done in every way. The Drama was painfully contrived, visually uninteresting, and poorly acted.