In 2016 I wrote a post about Apocalypse Now and a famous line Brando said in the movie about watching a snail slither along the edge of a razor and survive. It was prompted by me performing in a work skit where I used that line (don't ask) and a documentary about Brando I watched. It more or less reinforced my introverted self doing things that make my skin crawl (kind of like a snail along the edge of a razor.
I still crawl across that razor's edge now and then.
In Apocalypse Now, the character Colonel Kurtz spoke the line as a metaphor for the human condition under the pressure of war. The soft, vulnerable and slow human soul navigating the balancing act of life on the edge of real and imagined destruction. It requires a certain level of precision and luck.
As I recall the skit we performed the line fell dismally flat on the audience since few had ever seen Apocalypse Now, or if they had, they didn't recall the line. It is something I encounter more and more as my popular culture references are no longer current popular culture references. I also tend to focus on lots of random shit, so that doesn't help. I find myself as an old fool laughing at his own jokes a bit too hard.
I was going to save this image for April Fools Day but it seemed so appropriate now. But remember:
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