Robert De Niro spends a good stretch of The Mission dragging a rope of old armor up a waterfall, and every time I watch it I want to toss him a machete. (It came out in 1986. You’ve had time.) Read aloud while the painting draws itself: a true story about penance nobody required, the seven years I swore email was dead, the friend who cut my rope, and the chores you might be hauling by hand for no reason at all.
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Music: the Come Write Inn Radio theme, “Lute & Lantern”.
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