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magazines. But in the second phase, this same technique was no longer sufficient, for it was contradicted by the participation, now completely uninhibited, of the old man, who had himself photographed by one of the girls why he made love to the other, or threw aside the camera, now useless, and devoted himself frankly and without the pretext of photography to the complicated acrobatic erotic relationship which was both one-sided and tripartite. 7-19-84

Something Like an Autobiography - Kurosawa - 1982

p 88 During youth the desire for self-expression is so overpowering that most people end up by losing all grasp on their real selves.

p 195 Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware

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of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by "watching with a detached gaze."

James Agee by Laurence Bergreen - 1984

p 199 "All escapes are relative, and bestow their own peculiar forms of bondage."

p 223 (on drawing): "I would never have known how much even a little of it sharpens your eye and gives you more understanding and affection for even some small part of a human or architectural feature..."

p 234 "I have organized ... an advanced sexual program, and we would appreciate it if you will give us some advice on apertures" (postcard to Walker Evens)

p 321 (Agee on D.W. Griffith): "He was remarkably good, as a rule, in the whole middle range of feeling, but he was at his best just short of his excesses, and he tendered in general to work out toward the dangerous edge. He was capable of realism that has never been beaten, and he might, if he had