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| Author: | levingard [ Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Going Through En. 24 More Carefully |
| Author: | evamat [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Going Through En. 24 More Carefully |
Great analysis, levingrad. This is a real boon, as I'd only so far matched three novel scenes with the JOI films. Yet I suspected that there more matches to be made ... but anyway, now you've gone and done the bulk of the heavy-lifting/difficult sorting. Thanks! I've only got one thing to add, and that's the film /Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell (988)/ which is mentioned on page 297 (did I remember correctly that you're reading the Back Bay edition? Me too) as being the film that made the biggest impact on JvD. This tidbit connection probably explicates or at least illumines pg.235's mid-page pronouncement, "[JvD] always sees, after inhaling, right at the apex, at the graph's spike's tip, Bernini's 'Ecstasy of St. Teresa,' behind glass, at the Vittoria, for some reason, the saint recumbent, half-supine, her flowing stone robe lifted by the angel in whose other hand a bare arrow is raised for that best descent, the saint's legs frozen in opening, the angel's expression not charity but the perfect vice of barb-headed love.' Not that I really know what this all means (I have my ideas, but many are crazy), but I do at least see the connection. Oh, one more thing to throw in the the mix: On page 16, toward the bottom, Hal mentions, "... [thinking] very briefly of the late Cosgrove Watt." C.W. is first listed on page 16 as having died, and I've long (well, not all that long) wondered whether he's (i.e., Cosgrove W's) the 'C' mentioned in the section that starts on pg 128. Cosgrove Watt is also one of JOI's repeat actors. --M |
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| Author: | levingard [ Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Going Through En. 24 More Carefully |
The other thing I was thinking today (and this has probably been written on somewhere) is that in switching to P.Y.E., JOI knew he was going to commit suicide soon and wanted to set down his autobiography before he went, and attempt to communicate for his descendants what his life meant to him. Also, if I remember right, someone finds a modified microwave under ETA which may have been his working model for how he'd get his dome in the thing, suggesting a bit more premeditation in the act than Hal seems to think was there. |
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| Author: | evamat [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Going Through En. 24 More Carefully |
I did not know about the modified microwave. That must be toward the end. I'll keep eyes peeled. |
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| Author: | jackd [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Going Through En. 24 More Carefully |
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