Stranger than Fiction

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

 

What a surprising film! After returning from Louisville I finally got around to see "Stranger than fiction" and I was surprisingly moved by it.  The film underscore the universal concept of quality of life being far more important than the quantity of life. Expecting more humor I was overwhelmed by the depth of the parable.  Sort of a Rich Fool parable but also touched on several other important metaphors. What if we all lived our lives as a classic work of art. What would we do? What would we stop doing? And how would we end it.

Comments

[Wanda]

And speaking of life, how is Darlene and Nathan? W

[matt]

Darlene is doing much better. We are still waiting to get some counsel on the irregular heartbeat that the cardiac doc cited but she has been feeling good. We thought Nathan would return to school today but he just didn't think he could do it. The doctor says it's probably irritable (sp?) bowel syndrome. Anyway- please continue to pray for our family. You are so sweet to remember us during this tough time.

[John Tillman]

I also absolutely loved this movie! One of my favorites in the last year or two.

Keep us updated on Darlene...

Have you heard from Dennis? He is 50 in a couple of weeks?