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It takes as little as one jab or slash to trigger the screaming and bleeding. But so many more are required to make them stop.
Generations had watched so much fake death. Beautifully lighted, badly acted, underscored with music. Now nobody could believe in the reality of death.
After people had been fed so many lies they’ll never swallow anything as the truth.
Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death. Some in moments of greatest suffering. Some summon death in their moments of greatest joy and love, out of the awareness that such a moment is a pinnacle never again to be reached.
How even the most intimate moments of our lives are now reproduced and sold as a commodity.
As Foster listened, this Foley person explained how people find the source of a sound. With low-frequency sounds, the human brain analyzes the time delay between when the sound reaches each of the two ears. But with high-frequency sounds the brain analyzes the loss in volume between when the sound reaches each ear.
“The best agent is an agent who doesn’t know he’s one.”
Our greatest creation is our selves.
We are each our own best effort. And we’re satisfied until we see a photograph or hear a recording of our voice.
