The Shape of Water – The Daily SPUF

Window Dressing

March 21, 2018March 19, 2018 valorsminion 0 Comments American Experience, artistic license, Doc Holliday, doppelganger, Film Theory, frontier, Gil Perez, Henry Fonda, Jekyll and Hyde, loss, memory, My Darling Clementine, OK Corrall, Old West, Richard Feynman, Shape of Water, Shootout at the OK Corrall, The Double, The Shape of Water, Victor Mature, Wyatt Earp

Richard Feynman, in one of his autobiographies (if memory serves: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!), talks about losing his wife. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which at that time (the 1940s) was untreatable/incurable. In SYJMF, he says that he didn’t cry at her funeral, or precisely accept that she was dead. Until two weeks later, when he was walking down the street, glanced in a shop-window, and thought “Arline would love that dress.” That was when it hit him, and he started to cry. Yesterday, I went to an alumni (Sarah Lawrence, 2013) event. Someone asked who my don (SLC’s system:… [Continue Reading]