The Bible should be seen more as an invitation to conversation than as a definitive source. Thoughts upon viewing the Codex Sassoon
As he concludes his final visit with the stuffed whale for the last time, and just before riots break out in the Hungarian town, Valuska, the antihero of Bela Tarr’s 2000 film “Werckmeister Harmonies,” brings his eye close to the open, large and dead eye of the whale, which is lying in the cargo bed of a big truck, and says to it, “Look at all the trouble you’ve caused.” The whale remains silent.
