Acts of Thought

William James wrote that "[l]ife shall be built [on] doing and creating and suffering". Thinking and doing bleed into one another. "Not in maxims, not in 'anschauungen' [perceptions, opinions] but in accumulated acts of thought lies salvation." This blog is for myself, but I hope others may find something here for themselves.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Welly, Welly, Welles. Welles as Othello (1952).



The murder scene. Creepy erotic with that smothering kiss of death:



And in entirely with commentary from Bogdonovich:


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