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GD > HK: Don’t see In Cold Blood. Do ponder Borges’ remark (viva voce, to R.G. Stern, in Chicago) that the climax of Psycho is the killing of the fly in the final seconds.
— Aug 05, 2023 10:14AM
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GD, 1.29.63: reading A Rebours & The Childermass as retellings of Flaubert's Temptation of St Anthony: "Somewhere this theme got started in modern literature: Milton's Regained? Don Quijote? ... Once you grasp the theme--the world as extraneous distraction before which the mind must adjust its balance or be a ping-pong ball--the whole world of surrealism, especially in painting, falls into place."
— Feb 18, 2022 08:54AM
