tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16912487.post113831549651578948..comments2023-08-13T04:47:32.173-05:00Comments on Mary Novaria : Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Brokeback Mountain…Mary Novariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279881310425620037noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16912487.post-1138674006322854332006-01-30T20:20:00.000-06:002006-01-30T20:20:00.000-06:00Why is it so hard for us to stop putting quarters ...Why is it so hard for us to stop putting quarters in the ass-kicking machine?<BR/><BR/><I>Brokeback Mountain</I> is a beautiful film, beautiful in the special way that the artfully rendered pain of the human condition is beautiful. I think it's the kind of beauty Rilke had in mind when he said that beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are just able to endure, and we are so awed, because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com