Andre Dubus, “On Charon’s Wharf”, Broken Vessels: Essays (transcript below)[Text ID: “I am drawn aga

Andre Dubus, “On Charon’s Wharf”, Broken Vessels: Essays (transcript below)[Text ID: “I am drawn again and again to see Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, to watch the knight who, because finally he has been told by Death that he is going to die, must now act within that knowledge, and for the rest of the movie he lives in constant touch with his mortality, as we all should every day, with everyone (but we don’t, we don’t, we are distracted, we run errands … and that is why one of my favorite scenes in the movie is the knight sitting on the earth with the young couple and their child, and the woman offers him a bowl of berries: he reaches out with both hands, receives the bowl from her, and eats; and the scene is invested with his awareness that his time is confused and lonely and fearful and short, but for these moments, with these people, with this gift of food, he has been given an eternal touch: eternal because, although death will destroy him, it cannot obliterate the act between him and the woman. She has given him the food. He has taken it. In the face of time, the act is completed. Death cannot touch it now, can only finally stop the hearts that were united in it.”] -- source link

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