pretty animals in cages, pretty flowers in vases

From a strange essay called "Carbon" written by an apparently strange man named Primo Levi, who seems to have written a whole installation of metaphysical non-fiction called "The Periodic Table".  Reminded me of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.  He's talking about carbon, but I'm using it to refer to fiction, to stories, creative plots.

"It is possible to demonstrate that this completely arbitrary story is nevertheless true.  I could tell innumerable other stories, and they would all be true: all literally true, in the nature of the transitions, in their order and data.  The number of atoms is so great that one can always be found whose story coincides with any capriciously invented story."

Film directors I love, in no particular order:

1) Guillermo del Toro
2) David Lynch
3) Peter Jackson
4) Sofia Coppola
5) Pedro Almodovar
6) Kenneth Branagh
7) Spike Lee
8) M. Night Shyamalan
9) The Coen Brothers