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The Bridge

Posted in Death, Film on June 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Ever since I first saw a piece on ABC’s 20/20 about the documentary, The Bridge, I’ve wanted to see the film. From a relatively young age, I’ve been fascinated with mental illness and suicide. I can recall one of my favorite books as a teenager was The Savage God by Al Alvarez. [...]

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Kafkaesque (adj.): of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings; especially: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
“An evening, for example, stretched out on the stove. A man is purer than in the morning; the period before falling asleep is really the time when no ghosts haunt one; they are all dispersed; only as the night advances do they return. In the morning they have all assembled again, even if one cannot recognize them; and now, in a healthy person, the daily dispersal of them begins anew.” -- Franz Kafka
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