Sex and Sensibility - part one
The day before yesterday I stood at my local baker's and there was a couple with child in front of me. The young girl couldn't decide what piece of cake to have. I got my my loaves of bread and then had to choose pieces of cake for afternoon coffee and tea the next day myself. There were two girls serving the customers at the cake section at that moment of time. Stupid me, yes, because my brain does get me into trouble like this almost daily. I regret to say that I asked one of each, so that the child's choice was cut in half. Like in sports, which I was really dreadful at, I just can't do it. Think, for example, of my dad coming over the next day and the situation right in front of me at the same time.
Now sex and sensibility, one might indeed call it rather sensuality, is important to me. Just like my faith, my foundness for art and history, and my need for intellectual and sensuous challenges. Well, today I have the day off and I'll write some more of my dreadfully long essays like this one. I feel nowdays that one often falls into potholes, but that's alright. It's only when the potholes get to be bigger than oneself that one needs to worry about that. Put it into a box, I hear Stephen King say for his writer's throne.
Pamela's removal of her stockings in Hitch's 39 Steps let me delve into the subject matter a bit further and I came across the perfect geek website of Hitch fans (http://www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com) and the following 2011 article written there in which this passage took literally my breath away:
"For Hitchcock, whose Jesuit education familiarized him with Dante's Inferno, translating these stories to the screen came from a deep place. They spoke on behalf of a director who so often fell for his leading ladies, only to realize that his love would go unrequited. I'm reminded of Camille Paglia's summary of Hitchcock's vision in her BFI monograph on The Birds: "Hitchcock's vision is so extensive, so broad, that it takes in everything, from architecture to politics to sexuality -- but sexuality in particular, with its weird mixture of beauty and desire and horror and the macabre. There's an emotional depth to Hitchcock's films that I find almost completely lacking in some of the European art films that I once so adored and now regard as rather affected and very partial statements about human life." Hitchcock fused his private passions with his knowledge of art, literature and psychology to create moments of transcendently erotic—and romantic—cinema."
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Now sex and sensibility, one might indeed call it rather sensuality, is important to me. Just like my faith, my foundness for art and history, and my need for intellectual and sensuous challenges. Well, today I have the day off and I'll write some more of my dreadfully long essays like this one. I feel nowdays that one often falls into potholes, but that's alright. It's only when the potholes get to be bigger than oneself that one needs to worry about that. Put it into a box, I hear Stephen King say for his writer's throne.
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Pamela's removal of her stockings in Hitch's 39 Steps let me delve into the subject matter a bit further and I came across the perfect geek website of Hitch fans (http://www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com) and the following 2011 article written there in which this passage took literally my breath away:
"For Hitchcock, whose Jesuit education familiarized him with Dante's Inferno, translating these stories to the screen came from a deep place. They spoke on behalf of a director who so often fell for his leading ladies, only to realize that his love would go unrequited. I'm reminded of Camille Paglia's summary of Hitchcock's vision in her BFI monograph on The Birds: "Hitchcock's vision is so extensive, so broad, that it takes in everything, from architecture to politics to sexuality -- but sexuality in particular, with its weird mixture of beauty and desire and horror and the macabre. There's an emotional depth to Hitchcock's films that I find almost completely lacking in some of the European art films that I once so adored and now regard as rather affected and very partial statements about human life." Hitchcock fused his private passions with his knowledge of art, literature and psychology to create moments of transcendently erotic—and romantic—cinema."
