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Sputnik Sweetheart

Way back when the Sam Peckinpah film 'The Wild Bunch' premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: 'Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?' She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. 'Lady, did you ever see anyone shot with a gun without bleeding?'
I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding.

Out of Sputnik Sweetheart
by Murakami Haruki

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