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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Returning to Ghibli It hasn’t been until my adult life that I’ve begun to watch (and inevitably fall in love with) Studio Ghibli’s collection of animated films. The only one I saw as a child was Spirited Away (2001), and although I think it’s a masterpiece now, I distinctly remember being nothing short of traumatized…
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La pluie
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On Non-precious Materials and the Meaning of the Word Prolific
Something is Better It was actually A. (my closest confidant, my dearest friend) who first defined the word prolific for me. Because I had always heard it in context with The Greats—meaning the Monets, Picassos, and Michelangelos of this, our terrestrial plane—I had assumed the word implied a high degree of success. It does not.…
