Topical Guide 838
Mark Dorset
Advice: “Don’t Look Back”
Life Lessons: “Don’t Look Back”
Quotation: Movie Lines: “Don’t Look Back”
At Home with the Glynns, Chapter 24:
We heard the door burst open, then the sound of feet, many feet, on the stairway. Rocky crawled through the window. He helped Lola through. They began their escape over the rooftops. They were a couple of buildings away when, suddenly, we heard the sound of machine-gun fire from the garret. Lola shuddered. Suddenly, the firing stopped. Lola stiffened, hesitated, seemed to want to turn back. Rocky grabbed her with both hands and shook her.
Rocky (grimly): “Don’t look back.”
They turned away and resumed their scramble across the rooftops.
For years, Kraft has made short videos of everyday life. He makes these for Madeline’s amusement. Sometimes he sends them to others, who are, most of them, less amused. I offer you here a clip from one of them. Let me set the scene. The Krafts tried living in St. Petersburg, Florida, for a while. It had its charms, but a day came when Kraft missed New York too much to stay in the sunny south. On a day when they were walking together along the beach, Kraft turned to Madeline and sang, in the best imitation of Bobby Short he could manage, “Take Me Back to Manhattan.”
The film clips come from The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and Alphaville.
See also:
Advice: Bad TG 129; Dangerous TG 545; Good, Bad, Indifferent, Who Knows? TG 592; Good TG 605, TG 657
Life Lessons: Disillusionment, or the Ripping of Scales from One’s Eyes, Steps along the way to the Loss of Innocence, the School of Hard Knocks TG 553; The Student-Teacher Relationship TG 689
Quotation: Misquotation TG 448; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura TG 472; Movie Lines: “What a Dump” TG 474
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