The Essence of Celebration and Renewal
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And when all the celebrations are over it remains only to pick up all the ornaments—all the accessories of the celebration—and by burning them, make a celebration.
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Changing Past Images for Present Clarity
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If the images of the present don't change, then change the images of the past.
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The Challenges Following Independence
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Rumor has it that every third world leader coined the same phrase the morning after independence: “Now the real problems start.”
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The Complexity of Memory and Forgetting
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He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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The Absurdity of Film School Advice
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Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?
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The Indestructibility of Women
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All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility.
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The Gaze of Japanese Television
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But the more you watch Japanese television, the more you feel it's watching you.
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