je suis henri
Wednesday 25 June 2008 | I like a cookie
You’ve already seen this wistful little pièce du cinéma if you’re a faithless reader of Cute Overload (the B. and I now gasp “Pa-sickie!” to each other, revoltingly enough, when one of us wants paletas). If you haven’t/aren’t, though, it’s worth watching…insofar, that is, as anything is worth doing at all.
Pas sûr pourquoi, mais mildly similar l’existentialisme racks me at this very moment, albeit in a serene summery unmedicated kind of way. Perhaps because the Brujo and I talked our heads off during both eleven-hour car drives to the ranch and back, which conversations have left me reflective and thoughtful; as has the entire experience of spending three days in one of the most eyepoppingly beautiful places in the entire postlapsarian world.*
Eh bien, the universe being pitiless and all, I’m finally going to brave the Tartarean heat to take the Korean car for its inspection and registration—parce que it’s all very well to be shot through with the meaninglessness of everything, but I’ll be feeling even more hantée if I get pulled over and ticketed—not le fin, but le fine! Zût alors.
*Postscriptum: There’s a Latinate rhetorical term for the negative simile—i.e., the sort Milton employs in his refusals to describe Paradise. “Not that fair field of Enna,” etc. The Young Monk somehow knew this word (which probably explains an entire year of my life) but I have forgotten it—do any of you know this term? It’s not litotes; it’s an ana- or apo- prefix, I think; yet teh interwebs refuse to yield it to me this morning, for reasons known only to themselves.
Or do I just mean apophasis. I think I do. Never mind.
Postpostscriptum: This gem from dear oleoptene (via her partner rinzai, apparently via failblog). Despite nursing a deep conviction that life is purposeless, I still snarfed my blueberry smoothie when I saw it. It is the opposite of Cute Overload, I think; maybe Cuteness Bomphiologia?
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