Understanding

There are collectivities which, instead of serving as food,
do just the opposite: they devour souls.
In such cases, the social body is diseased, and the first duty
is to attempt a cure; in such circumstances,
it may be necessary to have recourse to surgical methods.

-- Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

What is Swooning?

Frank Tashlin's 1944 answer.

Reminder

You really want to know what Bob Kennedy was?

He was fucking beautiful. -- AP reporter Joe Mohbat

Iyashi

Tomoyasu Murata’s stop-motion works are without dialogue: Nostalgia (2000), Scarlet Road (2002), White Road (2003), Indigo Road (2006), Lemon Road (2008). Slow, painterly shots follow characters around on journeys remembering relics of the past -- happy days with a family, a deceased child, a deceased wife.

White Road.