Privilege

Oh! Yvonne Rainer's film Privilege is now available online! When I get home, I want to see if the whole film is there (but based on length, it looks like it might be).

I was just trying to Google a quotation from that film: something like "Is the best I can ever hope to be a permanently recovering racist?"

(I haven't seen it since the mid-90s. I hope I don't re-watch it and discover that it's not quite as good as I thought it was.)

Thought for the Day

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning —

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

— The Great Gatsby

I've been a bit fascinated by Gatsby lately.