Miranda July Quote
Once Carl had called me ginjo, which I thought meant sister until he told me it’s Japanese for a man, usually an elderly man, who lives in isolation while he keeps the fire burning for the whole village. In the old myths he burns his clothes and then his bones to keep it going, Carl said. I made myself very still so he would continue; I love to be described. Then he has to find something else to keep the fire going so he has ubitsu. There’s no easy translation for that, but basically they are dreams so heavy that they have infinite mass and weight. He burns those and the fire never goes out.
Miranda July
Once Carl had called me ginjo, which I thought meant sister until he told me it’s Japanese for a man, usually an elderly man, who lives in isolation while he keeps the fire burning for the whole village. In the old myths he burns his clothes and then his bones to keep it going, Carl said. I made myself very still so he would continue; I love to be described. Then he has to find something else to keep the fire going so he has ubitsu. There’s no easy translation for that, but basically they are dreams so heavy that they have infinite mass and weight. He burns those and the fire never goes out.
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About Miranda July
She wrote, directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011) and wrote and directed Kajillionaire (2020). She has authored a book of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007); a collection of nonfiction short stories, It Chooses You (2011); and the novel The First Bad Man (2015).