The inside of thought
is where everything teems and stirs with a thousand cracks
is where the water meets the shore like threads pulled taut that
soak the edge
"We're all born with a box of matches inside. We can't light them by ourselves. Just like in this experiment, we need oxygen and the help of a candle, except that in our case, from a lover's breath. The candle can be anything - a melody - a word - a caress - a sound. Anything that pulls the trigger and sets off one of the matches. Every person has to discover what will pull his trigger to enable him to live because it is the explosive flare of a match that feeds our souls."
5 Comments:
was this dinner?
I wish.
It was the filmically epistemological moment in Like Water for Chocolate.
Alfonso Arau.
good flick.
I agree...
"We're all born with a box of matches inside. We can't light them by ourselves. Just like in this experiment, we need oxygen and the help of a candle, except that in our case, from a lover's breath. The candle can be anything - a melody - a word - a caress - a sound. Anything that pulls the trigger and sets off one of the matches. Every person has to discover what will pull his trigger to enable him to live because it is the explosive flare of a match that feeds our souls."
(Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate)
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