
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
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Hmm?
Are you recording?
Maybe.
Yeah, you are.
Pardon my interruption.
What you are about to see
is a short film entitled
How Would You Feel?
Created by one
Terence Nance in 2006.
How Would You Feel? is an educational
film that examines theories
about how humans come to
experience a singular emotion.
In its original form it was
presented as a work of fiction.
We will interrupt the fim How
Would You Feel? from time to time
with a new film entitled An
Oversimplification of Her Beauty.
We will do this in order
to provide the context
necessary to tell
a complete story.
So let's say that one day
you arrive at your home.
It has been a long day,
during which you have wod
no less than
12 consecutive hours.
This is in your case
a typical day.
However, this particulary
a young lady who you know
and a little more than like
has told you that she is coming to
be in your company this evenin.
So as you empty your pocs
and begin to get settled,
you see that she has telephoned you.
Of course you telephone her back.
She answers.
She tells you that she has
just arrived at her own home
and won't be coming
to yours tonight.
At that moment,
given the circumstances,
how would you feel?
Now let's say that this particular
day began at 8:
00 a.m.,when you woke up too late to arrive
at your place of employment on time.
Your daily commute
is no less than one hour.
Although you arrive on tim,
you are disappointed in your inability
to awake yourself consistently
in situations when
you are in a bed alone.
You are disappointed because this disability
speaks to a lack of self-control.
Self-control that you feel entitled to,
but do not possess.
The evening before
you worked late
and consequently
slept for only three hours.
And let's say that you
have no bed and no money,
and a stubborn yet quixoc
do-it-yourself attitude.
So, you built your bed
in a wood shop
using Japanese wood
joinery techniques
that you learned from a book
you found in the garbage.
You possess no means
of personal transportation,
so you elected
to transport this bed,
piece by piece,
on the train ride home,
rushing yourself
because you expected
to be in the company
of this lady quite soon.
After all, she has told you
she would be in your
company this evening.
So, you empty your
pockets, get settled,
and notice you have missed her call.
You call her back.
She tells you she has just
arrived at her own home
and won't be seeing you tonight.
At that moment,
given the circumstances,
how would you feel?
Now, let's just say that over
the span of four to eight weeks,
very good friend of yours.
This friendship is platoni.
Let's say that
you are attracted to her.
You do not know if she,
in the deep recesses of her soul,
harbors any amorous feelings
for you as you do for her.
But when parting from
each other's presence,
on your lips.
Seldom, but with intenti,
and a hint of mischief and
doubt opaque in her pupils.
Let's say you and this
lady friend have slept together
on between four
and 18 occasions.
And by "slept together"
I mean just that, sleeping.
Each occasion occurs in either
one of your full-sized beds.
Each time you share a bed,
you grow closer physically,
until you cannot get any closer.
And let's say that this growth
seems mutually fulfilling.
It is gentle, subtle, but fortunately
it is accelerating in intensit.
Of course, each morning after
and for varying lengths of time
during the days between
these encounters...
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