The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities

Take away the narrative, as you might lift the roof off a church, in order to remember what you’re worshipping.
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Death of a Salesman Sources:
Making Willy Loman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...
Interview with Mike Nichols: https://deadline.com/2012/05/mike-fle...
Arthur Miller vs. Columbia Pictures: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Mike Nichols, Following in Kazan’s Footsteps: http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytime...

L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat Sources:
Lumiere’s Arrival of the Train: Cinema’s Founding Myth: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171125
Did A Silent Film About A Train Really Cause Audiences To Stampede? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

War of the Worlds Sources:
Radiolab: War of the Worlds: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/...
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/ors...
America under attack I: a reassessment of Orson Welles' 1938 war of the worlds broadcast: https://www.proquest.com/openview/2c1...
AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast:    • AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worl...  

Iliad/Enargeia Sources:
Memorial by Alice Oswald, 2011
From Enargeia to Immersion: The Ancient Roots of a Modern Concept: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/...

Music and Effects Provided by Epidemic Sound. Final song is "Only Human" by Philip Ayers

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