Originally Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2013
(photo by F. W. Glasier, 1902)
O.K. I know I'm the only one here who watches the HBO series, "Enlightened." And I almost didn't. But I just watched last night's DVRed episode, and it killed me. Here is the opening monologue that takes about three minutes over the images of Mike White's character dressed in a gray shirt, gray slacks, and gray casual jacket going through a day looking at the happy people, couples, families, etc.:
"It's O.K. to be a ghost. It has it's pleasures. . . . You slip in and out unseen. There's no love to lose, or burden to be. You have so little to hold you down. You are free. Some pearls are never found. They hide under the sand on the ocean floor. No one knows they're there. But the pearl knows. Maybe there was a time when he wanted to be found, to be seen, and to be held, but now only hope hurts. I am my own secret, a secret kept by me."
Everything in this. . . holy christ. . . if you ever see it, you will know.
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