Not by the Direct Method., from David Thomson’s magisterial The New...

from David Thomson’s magisterial The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Dennis Hopper

did a series of commercials for Nike, playing a football freak, so precise, so funny, and so daring (and so perverse—sniffing Bruce Smith’s shoe), they may be his finest work.

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Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.

Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:

"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."

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