Lee Sandlin
Reification - Belles Lettres
Reification - Belles Lettres
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There is no antidote against the opium of Time. — sir thomas browne, urn burial

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A Childhood Memoir.

When I see these movies again today, it’s obvious to me that they’re allegories. They’re about the nuclear age, the “new world of gods and monsters” that had burst into being in the 1950s and 1960s. That’s why I found the older American movies so dull: they were about the first stirrings of the new world, the first dawning horror over the gods and monsters emerging into the light. In practice this meant, to my continual frustration, that you didn’t see the monsters very often. ...

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