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had imported a projector to show films at night to the islanders who were by day his actors. Few of them had ever seen a movie, and they were mystified by the cutting from one scene to another, even by the cutting within a scene. "They didn't make connections," he said."

N.Y.T. interview with Roberto Rosellini by Candry

Dec 12.1971 - Sunday arts + leisure section p3

...the quality of a statement consists more in the choice and arrangement of the particular symbols used in making it than in its general sense.

Pascal.

The loneliness that comes from doing good is one of the mysteries of Christianity. - M. Moore

(as quoted at her funeral by her minister)

The correct version as quoted in the Times this morning

"The loneliness of doing right is one of the mysteries of Christian life."

Feb 9.72

In memory the sentence changed meaning and became less direct and simple. "Right" involves (a moral judgement) commitment - "good" is pleasant. [something you do for others sometimes, if at all.]

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America Lost and Found

"A man of the world would have suspected nothing - but this man had a special sense, being spiritual, and could scent out invisible emotions. Asceticism and piety have their practical side. They can generate insight...

...that there is no secret of humanity which, from a wrong angle, orthodoxy has not viewed, that religion is far more [illegible] than sincere, and if it only added judgement to insight would be the greatest thing in the world."

p236-237 Maurice - E. M. Forster

...it all vanished with a touch of that pathos like a hunger that attaches to all things of which we see the beginnings or the middle courses without knowing the ends.

Ford Madox Hueffer "The Soul of London" 1905

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a new born child, a new face that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction which cannot be prepared before hand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Martin Buber - Between Man and Man