“It Didn’t Look Like a House of Death When I Saw It”
Roger Ebert day-dreams of a life on the balcony, as things come to an end. “One of these days I shall tackle the rest of Baudelaire,” wrote Walter Benjamin to his friend Max Horkheimer, in a last letter from Paris. Samuel Beckett adamantly refused be taped. Against character, I decide not to watch this tape [...]
