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From Uncanny Valley: Adventures in Narrative, by Lawrence Weschler

SOONER OR LATER

"Sooner or later -- and generally speaking, far sooner than we would like -- all films crumble into dust."

From Splendors of Decaying Celluloid: On Bill Morrison's Decasia (2002)

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From Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bills, and Other True-Life Tales, by Lawrence Weschler

PEOPLE AND PLACES

"In all my writing, I guess, I have been concerned with people and places that were just moseying down the street one day, minding their own business, when suddenly and almost spontaneously they caught fire, they became obsessed, they became intensely focused and intensely alive -- ending up, by day's end, somewhere altogether different from what they imagined they where they'd imagined they were setting out that morning."

From the Introduction