My thoughts are very scattered tonight. Frankl was fascinating to me, I liked it. But I keep drawing these parallels between the Holocaust and The Waste Land because we're filming tomorrow. The fascinating thing is that Frankl seems to really believe that selflessness- or the outward focusing of the self towards something else, gives life meaning. This is true in a concentration camp- but it is also true in the Waste Land.
I play a character who imagines herself playing a game of chess, my costume includes a fur coat and pearls. And I see what Frankl means- that my life is meaningless whether in a fur coat or in a concentration camp- if i am focused on myself. T. S. Elliot would agree. "O Lord thou Pluckest me out."
I wish I could write more, but I'm cramming a paper for another class.
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