Kings of Sleep

“Writing I find is terribly unpleasant. It’s not something I enjoy. There’s some people who are like ‘I love writing’; I’m the old Dorothy Parker, I hate writing, but I love having written. I love the end result, I’m proud of it, I like thinking about it, but the act is– it’s not hard, it’s not like digging ditches for a living or any actual jobs human beings have– but it is mentally less pleasant than doing almost anything.”

The sound effect that begins at roughly 4:08 and ends at 4:23 is from Tarkovsky’s Stalker, in a scene in which the daughter of the Stalker (said to have been born physically disabled due to the Stalker’s forays into the Zone, a region in which the normal rules of physics do not apply) moves a glass across a table seemingly by looking at it, indicating telekinetic ability. “As God made me.”