In the blink of an eye

I’ve been re-reading one of my favorite books on film editing by Walter Murch
I like above all his preface.
“Most of us are searching -consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware -like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By the same token, someone who bore a glacier within him might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.”
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