Down South you will find,
among the High Pines,
an old liquor store where we danced on the floor.
We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine. A new form of writing will be necessary. I have thought of that and I can feel what is coming. But I rather like it. This swift change of scene, this blending of emotion and experience … in life, too, changes and transitions flash before our eyes, and emotions of the soul are like a hurricane. The cinema has divined the mystery of motion. And that is greatness.
Leo Tolstoy, from a letter to a friend on the advent of cinema (via
confusionis)