Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Since watching The Lighthouse, I’ve been thinking about an Emily Dickinson poem. It is number 1010, “Crumbling is not an instant’s Act.” It concludes with a reference to “Crashe’s law.” Dickinson seems to be inventing a law of physics here—a law to explain that the “crash” is only the climax of a slow process of ruin. She asks us to turn our attention to the methodical work the Devil has done to precipitate the climactic fall.
Crumbling is not an…