my pensive ghost; He best can paint "em, who shall feel "em most. Notes 1. Get A Life (1991-92), The Dana Carvey Show (1993), The Trouble with Larry (1993), The Edge (1993-94), Ned and Stacy (1996-97), to name a few. 2. Cf. Thoreau's inquiry into the essence (or lack) of the self-positing "I": "If I am not I, who will be?" (Thoreau, 1980, 156). 3. For a curiously overwrought and scathing attack on Kaufman's ironic tendencies see Stephanie Zacharek's breathless Salon.com review of Adaptation : "Cowardly! . . . [Kaufman and Jonze are] using their smug gimmickry to distance us from our deepest emotions rather than lead us straight into battle with them" (Zacharek, 2002). 4. An identical inversion of yin/yang gender characteristics occurs in Eternal Sunshine. Joel is painfully repressed and literally spends most of the action in his head. The extrovert Clementine literally wears her change of mind on her head, in various capricious dye jobs. 6. For a comprehensive account of Dennett's critique of the "Cartesian theatre" model of consciousness, see Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1991). For a summary of his position, see Daniel Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne, "Time and the Observer: The Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain," Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 15, 1992, pp. 183-247. 7. Schopenhauer, though an atheist, was impressed with the character of Jesus as a "natural Buddhist": "Whatever anyone may say, Christianity has Indian blood in its veins" (Payne, 1974, 187). 11. This