How the sky turned white and everybody froze

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As of this afternoon, I have a full screenplay for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Along with ethnographic commentary, interviews, and a version of the Sedna myth that I had not previously heard. All bilingual: in English and Inuktitut.

This improved my day a lot.

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The book's available on amazon.com: they say four to six weeks to ship, so I suspect it may need to be ordered from Canada, but I have my fingers crossed. I re-watched the movie this afternoon, and it was also fascinating to see where the finished story departed from the screenplay, or where the images had been translated beautifully from words to film. (Either way, it's now gone on my list of Movies I Cannot Currently Afford But Which I Really Need To Own, Damn It, Why Don't I Make More Money As A Grad Student? Oh, Right.) Now I just have to find some plausible way to link Atanarjuat to Iliad 9 . . .