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WIND MAP Think of a patch of ground on a sunny day. Sunshine pours down. The air gets warmer. Along comes a cloud, not a big one, but big enough to cast a shadow. The air in that shadow cools a little.
Now we’ve got a difference: cool air is sitting next to warm air—and the air that’s warming up is getting lighter. The air that’s cooling down is getting heavier, and as the...
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“I am convinced that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of the...”
– Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey
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10 CLUES TO UNLOCKING “MULHOLLAND DRIVE”
Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: at least two clues are revealed before the credits.
Notice appearances of the red lampshade.
Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again?
An accident is a terrible event… notice the location of the accident.
Who gives a key,...
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CHIODO SCACCIA CHIODO Hair of the dog is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover. The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and...
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SEPERATION
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W. S. Merwin
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TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING: Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
1. I wish I’d had the...
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