- Eloisa to Abelard (excerpt)

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
"Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;"
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n."

- Alexander Pope


...speachless

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. what a beautiful way to describe happiness. i'm so conflicted by this movie. i want to say that we can only feel what we know, what we remember. but aren't memories of what we went through the things that make us what we are today? ignorance is bliss... i guess that's the point of the movie, or at least the point the movie wants to disprove. maybe that is why i'm so conflicted, because it is one of my core beliefs. thinking about joel and his imaginary emotional outbursts creates a tornado of emotions within myself. i guess i will just say that it is a great movie and leave the rest in my head.