"Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending ;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending,-
I listened, motionless and still ;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.",
from The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth.
"They took them away with them, the dead bodies of the seals, and they hadn't gone out very far until all the seals, of which there was a terrible number, started roaring and bawling, and they set up a terrible hullabaloo about the dead seals. And amidst all the excitement and turmoil one seal was heard to exclaim : 'Who killed Anna? Who killed Anna? Who killed Anna?' And this was answered by another seal : 'Oh, the same man, the man always, the man always.'", from The People of the Sea.
He had always felt a lack of attachment or conviction in himself that could let a friend fade from his life while he followed a stranger. Strangers are more beckoning; they offer new lives.
The third episode of my Cracking the Kube series has a very special treat: a NEVER BEFORE HEARD interview with Stanley Kubrick, in which he discuss some of the myths and legends that surround him. In the first part of the episode I set the context for my analysis of the mythology, which will be in the second part. Thanks for your attention.
In translating a novel to the screen, you can transcend it with one addition (equally, a novel can upend a movie with a single introspective paragraph).