"Parker's Back” ends with O E Parker leaning against a pecan tree in his yard, "crying like a baby." Just minutes before, when he’d whispered his full name through a door barred against him by his wife—“Obadiah Elihue,” the name he'd always hidden and run from—then| mostly.substack.com
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In the third scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Gavin Elster asks his old college pal Scottie (Jimmy Stewart) to spy on his wife, because, Elster says, in what we later learn is a set-up, he suspects she’s been possessed by a dead woman.| mostly.substack.com
Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., directed by Errol Morris.| mostly.substack.com
It’s at the end of The Last Word by Thomas Nagel that fear of religion comes onstage.| mostly.substack.com