Jonathan didion

First Philippines trailer of Lav Diaz’s MAGELLAN. Opens in select Philippine cinema tomorrow, Sept 10.

My husband is one of the most intelligent people I've ever met, and I was immediately taken by him, but over the years, I've come to learn most people can't see it. He dresses simply. He uses plain language. He likes superheroes and video games. They conclude they're not seeing a smart person. People aren't looking for intelligence itself. They look for signifiers of it, the song and dance of it, the whirling bedazzlement of "genius," like a peacock spreading its wings. That is how easy it is to fool someone.

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[AMERICAN GRAFFITI] For whom was it "just like that," I wonder. Not for women, not for blacks or Orientals or Puerto Ricans, not for homosexuals, not for the poor. Only for white middle-class boys whose memories have turned into pop. (1973)