2020
After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.
100 min
CLEAR ALL
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.