17 April 2004

A. E. Housman's definition of true poetry is that it causes the hair on one's face to bristle, making it impossible to shave. John Shade also refers to this phenomenon in line 920 of Pale Fire. Anyway, I'm not sure what this says about me, but of all the movies I've ever seen, only two have endings that reliably cause all the hairs on my arms to stand on end and send a shiver down my spine. One is Kill Bill Vol. 1. The other is Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.

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