Blue Moon
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" Sometimes at night ...
... the darkness and silence weighs upon me.
Peace frightens me, perhaps I fear it most of all.
I feel it's only a facade ... hiding the face of hell.
I think what's in store for my children tomorrow.
The world will be wonderful, they say.
But from whose viewpoint, if one phone call ...
... could announce the end of everything?
We need to live in a state of suspended animation ...
... like a work of art ...
In a state of enchantment ...
We have to succeed in loving so greatly ...
... that we live outside time ...
Detached ...
Detached ... "
-- from the movie "La Dolce Vita" by Federico Fellini (1960)
March 31, 1999, 7:10pm, Western Canal, Tempe, Arizona
Camera: Olympus OM-1 35mm SLR, on fixed tripod.
Film: Fuji Provia 100 slide
Lens: 200mm at f/4, 1 second
Scanned using a Nikon Coolscan LS-10E 35mm film scanner.
Revised: April 29, 2002
Copyright © 1999 Joe Orman (except dialog by Federico Fellini)
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