Friday, September 27, 2024

REFLECTING ON "MAGGIE SMITH": A BRIEF REFLECTION IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS THROUGH WHICH I DOGGEDLY, CONFUSEDLY, DELVED INTO....LOOKING TO FIND WHO I MIGHT BECOME.....


James Ivory, Pierre André Clémenti, Alan Bates, Armelia McQueen.....now, Maggie Smith.....All, introduced to my intellectually formative young adulthood via French, Italian and Swedish Cinema have, although dead and gone..now, have left my Mind....full of reconsiderations, alternating paths of emotional alternatives and a deepening appreciation of The Art Of Life, as my own Life unravelled, reweaving its components into a more truthful assemblage........Thank you....or, well, my memories of you, Miss Brodie.....you were a Prime Mover...always offering keys to the shackles of compliance and internalization, linked by the chains of conformity........