that Rilke poem is quoted in Waking Life from a different translation - a drifter shuffles out of some urban night shadows and randomly blurts out to the present character “as the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough” and then just recedes into the darkness
Has haunted/inspired me ever since the first time I saw that scene
ilysm <3
that Rilke poem is quoted in Waking Life from a different translation - a drifter shuffles out of some urban night shadows and randomly blurts out to the present character “as the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough” and then just recedes into the darkness
Has haunted/inspired me ever since the first time I saw that scene