Carlos Fuentes

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INTERVIEWER

Then you don't feel that film will usurp the novel?

FUENTES

I was talking a few months ago in Mexico with one of the great film makers of our time, Luis Buñuel. He was eighty years old, and I was asking how he looked back on his career and on the destiny of the film. He said, “I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.”

-- Carlos Fuentes at The Paris Review (1981)

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LJ

LiveJournal has a new promotion going, called "Return Your Friends". It addresses the hollowing out of everyone's Friends List. Through this program we can nudge our old absentee friends to come back and start posting again. As commenters to the post have pointed out, this move really reeks of desperation, and nobody is expecting a big comeback happening. I am tempted to make a comment myself: how do you bring back 2005? You may as well call back your virginity.

Nevertheless, I did send out the promotional notice to three old blogging-buddies: Christie, Ms. Oleander Rue, and Mr. Antilapsarian. Aside from hearing a word from old friends again, I was mainly motivated by trying to get some free paid-time. I would like to take a look at the statistics on my blog-traffic. Al might play along and make a post that would ring in my prize. Or maybe not. Nonetheless, it is interesting to see LiveJournal sharing in my wistful nostalgia.

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