My favorite movie is "Orphee" by Jean Cocteau. My favorite scene amid all the strange beauty is where poetry, in the form of numbers, is being dictated to our protagonist on a car radio. He writes the numbers down carefully. Somebody says something like "That is not poetry. Those are only random numbers." Orphee replies (again, from my memory) "Who are you to tell me what is poetry and what is not." Years after seeing it I dreamed of the scene and, in my dream, realized that every number represented the life of an individual. I woke up crying. It was one of my most unusual and moving life moments. The numbers could also represent the days in a life. I was born June 8, 1953. This photo was taken on May 26, 2009, during an evening walk with Katherine.
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Yes. That is a great film.
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