Re-Lighting the Fire
​By Dennis Bartok 

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Light My Fire – The Doors, 1967 (Written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek)
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​April, 2015: I am driving east along the Sunset Strip in the afternoon, returning from a party at the French Consul’s home. Sitting beside me is my friend Agnès Varda, director of Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond and The Gleaners & I, sporting her trademark two-tone white-and-purple hair. I’m playing chauffeur and driving her to another engagement because, well, Agnès is always busy, always double-booked. As we pass the Whisky a Go Go, her eyes light up and she exclaims, “The Wheesky au Go Go! Jacques and I used to see our friend Jim Morrison play here…” Maybe in unconscious preparation for just this moment, I happen to have a CD of The Doors in the car and pop it into the player. Agnès gives a cry of delight as “Light My Fire” comes on.  And then, in her heavily accented English, she begins singing a duet with her long-dead friend at the top of her lungs:
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You know that I would be untrue,
You know that I would be a liar
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