Apparently, the line “Here’s looking at you, Kid,” is not in the screenplay of Casablanca, but is something Bogart said to Bergman often while trying to teach her poker between takes.
One of the most radical things about Bikram is that you are more or less forced to look at yourself in the mirror for 90 minutes.
That’s pretty intense, right –– especially given that you’re often shirtless if you’re a guy or particularly exposed if you’re a lady.
It’s like a weird Louise Haye Mirror exercise –– except instead of positive affirmations you have someone shouting “Lock your leg! You have no knee!” or something equally normative. Time and time again, you’re directed to “meet your gaze in the mirror” — and yet given no instructions to blow kisses or “love and accept yourself completely.”
One week into my Bikram intensive, I have to say that there’s something radically transformative about this kind of extensive mirror work –- although I’m not sure if it’s perhaps just a byproduct of heat delirium.
In other news …
Beach walk this morning with Andrea Lake who’s visiting … Tremendous jump rope progress … Astonishing VAMPIRE DIARIES season finale (I’m basically hibernating now until the fall brings me back to Mystic Falls and Downton Abbey).
By the way, “Here’s Looking At You, Kid” is AFI’s number 5 greatest movie line of all time –– right between “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” and “Go ahead, make my day.”
Somehow, while staring at myself in the mirror for 90 minutes every day, that makes perfect sense.
[Although again, maybe it’s just the 115 degrees and 24% humidity.]
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Well I don’t remember when I had signed up for this course but never did complete it I know it has been quite a while, and somehow I am here again today. Happy to be here now!!! Starting over.
I’m glad you’re starting up again, Helen. Best of luck on this adventure.
Here’s Looking At You kid, I find it interesting that the real meaning of it was not what it had appeared it to be.