Used, Discarded, and Crackling with Vision

By: FRANK HAMMEL - San Antonio Current
January 2, 2007


"There’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once,
and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst ... And then I
remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it, and then it flows through me like
rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid
little life."

The difference between Roy LaGrone and Lester Burnham, the narrator of 1999’s Oscar-
winning "American Beauty" (quoted above), is that LaGrone captures his strange vision of
beauty, preserving it in containers...

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