October 24, 2007
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Hollywood Midrash continued…
Adieu:
A Story for DobbsInternet Movie Database on screenwriter Lem Dobbs:
“Trivia:
Son of painter R.B. (Ron) Kitaj.
Took his pseudonym from the character Humphrey Bogart played in ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.’”
October 21 was the day
that R. B. Kitaj died.
For what Kitaj called
“midrashic glosses“
on the numbers and
the lucky sums, see
4/30, 5/12, and
Eight is a Gate.“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….
We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple
choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the
imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’
with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which
is our actual experience.Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about a time when
I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever
told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling.”“He has come to be fascinated… by the
kabbalah, finding in it parallels to the world of art and ideas. Every
morning, after a long walk, he winds up at a Westwood café surrounded
by pretty UCLA students where he studies the writings of Emmanuel Levinas,
before working for an hour on his memoirs.”
“There is no teacher
but the enemy.“– Orson Scott Card,
Ender’s Game
