As I watched the city burning that night in what would become the worst unrest in U.S. history — more than 50 dead, 2,000 injured, and nearly $1 billion property damage — I couldn't help but think how much I identified with the young man screaming at the police officers.
Willem says,"One thing that was very interesting to me was how much I identified with the tiger.
I'm sure you won't be surprised to know how much I identified with a story about a passionate 16-year-old girl who writes songs, comes to the Big Apple to see them through, and makes a name for herself.
I am one of those summer visitors and I see much that I identify with and much that I don't.
In terms of culture, I identify much more with my ethnic background and my immigrant ancestors, inheriting an outsider's view while finding my own niche in New York.
"It's extremely easy to mix my words so that it sounds more like a message from P. T. Barnum than from a Thoreau or a Seneca, with whom I identify much more," he told me not long ago.
He loves Munro's stories, he says, because "there's so much about her that I identify with – she's a housewife who writes" (in recent interviews, he often refers to himself today as "a housewife").
"I'm sure there were other directors that would have done a much better job, but I identify with Greg so deeply".
In the end, however, I identify much more as a Body-Catholic -- I'm more comfortable at a charismatic healing service or a benediction than I am at a Catholic academic conference or a Church synod.
"I identify so much with their point of view," she said.
