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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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7.5.07

What Laura moves toward is that nimbus of the even less-than-Stasi monitors our lives carry now. It's trying to humanize itself, that thing that's watching all the time whatever you do. The movie's an apologia for all the spiritual paraplegics who’ve snitched off their more able cousins for a place at the table and a prosthetic engagement with a common denominator their treachery brings closer and closer to where they are.

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