Preparing to write a book of narrative nonfiction, a suspenseful page-turning thriller about a story with an unknown outcome.. I am reading books and watching a lot of movies, mostly about heroes slaying corporate/government monsters or heroes caught up in tidal waves of history.
Today's film is The Last Samurai.
Some days I feel like this character Algren, cut down and just barely spared from death.
But this Algren gets up and gets stronger, learning from Japanese how to fight Japanese.
That was early in the movie.
Much later, Algren says:
Indeed, Captain Algren, it's not over.
The story is not over.
The fight is not over.