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stormtrooper smacks his head

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.04.15

Kenny demanded to see Star Wars again today (I've created a four year year old monster).

Today as we watched, I noticed something that I've never seen in my dozen (or twenty) other viewings. At around the 1:20 mark, a tall stormtrooper smacks his head as he enters the room on the Death Star where R2D2 and C3PO are hiding.

Here's the sequence. Note the fellow on our right.

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watch out!
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contact
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recoil

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner