Describe it like Hemingway.
Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
Seth: It's perfect.
City of Angels. I swear, it gets me everytime, It was the first DVD my mother ever got for me, several years and quite a few DVDs ago. I cry when I watch it, I cry because I know what it is to love someone. I know what its like to lose someone. I cry because my heart aches to have someone love me like Seth loved Maggie. Mostly I cry because its so human. The entire movie is about what its like to be human.
I just read Jamie Orrs blog about suffering, and how, as Christians, we should no only suffer, but look forward to our suffering. We should recognize that through suffering comes growth and through growth do we come closer and closer to the feet of Christ. I agree wholeheartedly.
But what of being human? The quote above is from a part of the movie where Seth, the angel asks Maggie, the human doctor what a pear tastes like. Several other times the idea is brought up, the angels read the thoughts of humans at the library in such a way that they read things like Hemingways poems, that's why he asks her to describe it like Hemingway. So describe to me what its like to be human...
Its happy and sad. Warm, like being in a hug with someone you love. Its tingly, its anxious, its exhilarating, like the first time you hold hands with someone you are falling for. It hurts, it rips and tears and burns, like your first heartache. Its joyous and awe inspiring like the first time you hold your first child, flesh of your flesh. Its quiet when you dream, and loud when you laugh.
What are those things that we love the most about our kind? The beauty of love is the same beauty as tears that fall in the name of passion. Pain and anger lead to action eventual healing. Love creates life and destroys it. To feel is to suffer, to suffer is to live and to know that your living because you suffer. Storms will come and go, eventually the waters calm and the sunrises and you feel the warmth on your face. The greatest feeling is love and the worst is loss. We are all the more beautiful for it, beautiful in tears and joy, beautiful in our pain and our joy.
Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
Seth: It's perfect.
City of Angels. I swear, it gets me everytime, It was the first DVD my mother ever got for me, several years and quite a few DVDs ago. I cry when I watch it, I cry because I know what it is to love someone. I know what its like to lose someone. I cry because my heart aches to have someone love me like Seth loved Maggie. Mostly I cry because its so human. The entire movie is about what its like to be human.
I just read Jamie Orrs blog about suffering, and how, as Christians, we should no only suffer, but look forward to our suffering. We should recognize that through suffering comes growth and through growth do we come closer and closer to the feet of Christ. I agree wholeheartedly.
But what of being human? The quote above is from a part of the movie where Seth, the angel asks Maggie, the human doctor what a pear tastes like. Several other times the idea is brought up, the angels read the thoughts of humans at the library in such a way that they read things like Hemingways poems, that's why he asks her to describe it like Hemingway. So describe to me what its like to be human...
Its happy and sad. Warm, like being in a hug with someone you love. Its tingly, its anxious, its exhilarating, like the first time you hold hands with someone you are falling for. It hurts, it rips and tears and burns, like your first heartache. Its joyous and awe inspiring like the first time you hold your first child, flesh of your flesh. Its quiet when you dream, and loud when you laugh.
What are those things that we love the most about our kind? The beauty of love is the same beauty as tears that fall in the name of passion. Pain and anger lead to action eventual healing. Love creates life and destroys it. To feel is to suffer, to suffer is to live and to know that your living because you suffer. Storms will come and go, eventually the waters calm and the sunrises and you feel the warmth on your face. The greatest feeling is love and the worst is loss. We are all the more beautiful for it, beautiful in tears and joy, beautiful in our pain and our joy.
What do you think it is to be human? Describe it like Hemingway.
posted by Jamie | 9:42 PM
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What I want to know is, who keeps taking your picture while you're sleeping? ;)
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