Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are utterly brilliant in this 1966 filmed adaptation of Edward Albee's play. 

The play opened on Broadway in September 1962, just days before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I do not think this was entirely by chance. I think that one should watch this film as if it were a part of John F. Kennedy's "Secret Societies" speech.

I am not sure what Kennedy said to whom on 27th April 1961. Here's one version:

This version was, I think, addressed to advertisers.

Hannah Arendt mentioned this in 1964, at 1:42 in the context of fractured public spheres. 

Remember me? I brought your groceries in, ... Lana Del Rey explains, in 61 seconds:


... and the Strad?

... and the cool breeze?

... and the Jaguar?

Labour and consumption. Alice being eaten in the Dream of The Red King. See Fred Hoyle's description of thermodynamics and protein-based life forms in Lori on Extraterrestrial Life:

Sylvia Plath died in 1963, aged 34 years.


Comfortably numb?

On the difference between waking when you are asleep and waking when you are awake:

Terence McKenna on the difference between men and women 1:09:17 - 1:24:32:

See The Jaguar Circuit:

See On Finding Your People.

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