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All this would do is wreck a family.
And the abuse I was suffering at the hands of my father and his friends had left me a total wreck.
Anyway, the second thing I want to say about dying in the 21st century, apart from it's going to happen to everybody, is it's shaping up to be a bit of a train wreck for most of us, unless we do something to try and reclaim this process from the rather inexorable trajectory that it's currently on.
So he basically set up, or basically shattered the suspension of disbelief, because what he photographed was the real thing, a Mir sub going down, or actually two Mir subs going down to the real wreck, and he created this very haunting footage.
RL: So, what I did is basically I had another screening room experience where I was basically tracking where I was looking, or where we were looking, and of course you're looking at the two people on the bow of the ship, and then at some point, I'm changing the periphery of the shot, I'm changing, it's becoming the rusted wreck, and then I would run it every day, and then I would find exactly the moment that I stopped looking at them and start noticing the rest of it, and the moment my eye shifted, we just marked it to the frame.
And it's literally done by using what our brains naturally do for us, which is, as soon as you shift your attention, something changes, and then I left the little scarf going, because it really wanted to be a ghostly shot, really wanted to feel like they were still on the wreck, essentially.
It could have been a train wreck.
And what's interesting about this view is, again, it's a view that's held by pro-globalizers like Tom Friedman, from whose book this quote is obviously excerpted, but it's also held by anti-globalizers, who see this giant globalization tsunami that's about to wreck all our lives if it hasn't already done so.
Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "Moby Dick," wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.
It was then that God intervened: news on the TV of a car wreck that hours before had killed three people up north.
She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts, but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank that comes after the words "In case of emergency, please call ..." She was nearly hysterical when she looked at me and said, "Who's going to be there for me if I get in a car wreck?
Clicking on a train wreck just pours gasoline on it.
The whole thing kind of collapses into this collaborative train wreck.
Only 11 people survived that wreck, of the 500.
Emotionally, I was a wreck.
All of my neighborhood friends were experiencing an educational train wreck that I was saved from through a bus ride.
I went to my first day of chemotherapy, and I was an emotional wreck.
I excelled in sports, that is until a friend and I chose to take his mom's car for a joyride and wreck it.
That would wreck my country.
An individual, for the first time in the history of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to destroy the planet, to wreck everything, through the creation, for example, of a biopathogen.
So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.
They give us some sense of what's going to be our train wreck.
Secretly, what I wanted to do was I wanted to dive to the real wreck of "Titanic."
I said, "We're going to dive to the wreck.
We went back to the Titanic wreck.
Nobody had ever looked inside the wreck.
We need to settle down before we wreck the planet.
He said, "He was in a car wreck, and I pulled him out, gave him CPR, and I saved his wife's life as well."
I was physically exhausted, mentally an absolute wreck, considered myself a failure.
Yeah, that ridiculous wreck of a flying monster looks like a cross between a turkey buzzard and a bad day at the dentist's office.
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