morning computer doors

Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, “An open door”.

Christopher Lee

“Christopher Lee dislocated his shoulder shooting @hammer_films iconic 1959 film, The Mummy. A door Lee crashed through during the film was accidentally bolted by a grip before the scene was shot, resulting in a dislocation when he hit it. The shot can still be seen in the movie.”

“A brain like yours should be able to forget,” said the man standing at the door, staring at Solomon’s seal. The soft, far-off voice laughed. “Forget? I have twice in my life forgotten something… Once that Aetro-oil and quick-silver have an idiosyncracy as regards each other; that cost me my arm. Secondly that Hel was a woman and you a man; that cost me my heart. The third time, I am afraid, it will cost me my head. I shall never again forget anything, Joh Fredersen.”

METROPOLIS, Thea von Harbou

In Moscow I stayed in a hotel where nearly all the rooms were occupied by Tibetan lamas who had come to Moscow for a conference of all the Buddhist churches. I was struck by how many doors in the corridors of the building always stood ajar. What had initially seemed pure chance began to prey on my mind. Then I discovered: the inmates of such rooms were members of a sect who had vowed never to occupy a room with the door closed.

Walter Benjamin