Vitanuova for 2002 April 6

Amusing

Freudian slip this morning: typing "Serial Copy Mandate System" instead of "Serial Copy Management System".

Something I think Freudian slips should be called Markovian slips.

Saturday

I watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape with Zack. The most astonishing line in that movie:

This isn't supposed to happen. I've spent nine years structuring my life so this didn't happen.

Written out, this looks almost comical. It looks like the speaker is being made to look ridiculous on account of some minor, overblown, failed obsession.

Spoken in the movie, it's not comical, it's anguished.

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