Nine essays: 'Star Wars', Philip K. Dick. John Cassavetes, movies, and his mother's declining health.
'I still go to the movies alone, all the time. In the absenting of self which results —so different from the quality of solitude at my writing desk— this seems to me as near as I come in my life to any reverent or worshipful or meditational practice. That’s not to say it isn’t also indigent, with a frisson of guilt, of stolen privilege, every time. I’m acutely conscious of this joyous guilt in the fact that when as a solitary moviegoer I take a break to go to the bathroom I can return to another part of the theater and watch from a different seat. I first discovered this thrill during my Star Wars summer, and it’s one which never diminishes', from “13, 1977, 21”.
