“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
― Agatha Christie, in her autobiography
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“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) was the first sequel to 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” but it was technically a prequel — its story is set a year prior to the events of the first film. I was predictably obsessed with seeing it when I was a kid. I even remember getting excited over the tagline you hear in the trailer below — “If adventure has a name, it must be ‘Indiana Jones.'”
But I was a little late for the party, and a few of my sixth-grade classmates saw it before I did. They even blabbed about the rope-bridge finale in class, which I guess is the first time in my life that spoilers were ever an issue. It didn’t affect my enjoyment of the movie, however. (Somewhere, the shrinks at UC San Diego are smiling.) I was over the moon for this “second Raiders movie.”
If memory serves, I even had the story on audio cassette. I think it was a birthday present. I had the novelization too; that was even more fun!
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Eric tested, Nolan approved.
South Jefferson Street, July 2023.
People still say “nifty,” right?
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Be safe. Handle fireworks safely. Don’t drink and drive. Resist the temptation of demagogues. Reject authoritarian populism.
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That look you give her when she tells you that she hasn’t seen “The Prestige.”
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 