A MAN and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. ALMOST CERTAINLY will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will NEVER meet.
Read MoreMy dad has sometimes FELT that I grew up a little lacking in SUFFICIENT eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an ADULT in a house with WALLS that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Read MoreThe celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once WROTE that MOVIES function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional NORMS and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their SELVES in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
Read MoreWe always see Aung San as a STRONG, tough woman. There are TWO stories RUNNING in parallel. You see the contradictions between the East and the West, and you see SOMEONE who does mundane and normal things - someone who's supposed to be a housewife - and then someone who's BECOME important and imprisoned.
Read MoreThird person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between CHARACTERS. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can CREATE a more complex structure with various story threads RUNNING PARALLEL.
Read MoreMy translation work has been pretty separate from my FICTION, as it was basically an ACCIDENTAL SIDE project that turned into a separate and PARALLEL career.
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