i was going to respond to ruben\’s comment over on my thread, but i think i\’ll just keep it here — re: that list at the end. yes it\’s pretentious and predictable (though i myself wouldn\’t have thought to lump sinatra and willie mays together with beethoven). but i think your post, wendy, helped me realize that it\’s also a list of things that are perfect: almost incredibly so. certainly they can\’t be replicated or reexperienced for the first time. repeated exposure makes them underwhelming. even tracy works this way. by film\’s end she\’s 18, legal. she\’s not what she represented to him in the beginning. even so, just about the only thing from that list that *is* perfectly preserved — which never fails to deliver — is, in fact, tracy\’s face.

No one I know has a sustained, interesting…i emphasize interesting…dynamic relationship with The Right One. Want to have a really good, challenging life? Shack up for the long term with The Wrong One.