The character in Walt Whitman's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking and the modern emo-art phase David Sedaris have in common an event that is footnoted with the reference point: "This is when the universe switched polarity for [insert either the transcendentalist or the misunderstood meth-head artist]." Whitman ascends from blissful ignorance to a translator of the natural world while Sedaris becomes increasingly reverent to the idea of the world happening without rhyme or reason. Aside from this incredibly ambiguous contrasting similarity, comparable to the pinpoint accuracy of the National Enquirer horoscope, the two have very little in common.
Out of the Cradle begins with a man walking on a beach with sand and memories between his toes late one night throws himself to the ground in the semi-neutral zone where the foam flicks its tongue at the edge of the world. The camera pans up to showcase a yellow half-moon and panning down we are of the same beach but the man is now a......
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