PART TWO
THE BLUE PAGES
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
—Orson Welles
Many cities of men the traveller saw, and learned
the turnings of their streets and of their minds.
Many sufferings he learned as well,
drifting heartsick upon the endless open sea,
striving to keep his life within his breast
and bear his comrades home.
But he could not lift their stars from their shoulders,
not even with his whole strength.
Recklessness destroyed them all,
those blind fools who in madness
devoured the Cattle of the Sun—
and so it was that bright god removed from them
their homecoming.
—Homer, The Odyssey