prose that plays a film in reverse

Brian Stonehill Media Studies Pomona College BSTONEHILL at POMONA.EDU
Tue Jul 25 11:26:32 CDT 1995


Bonnie observes:

>I have not read anything on the
>similarity to the war film in _Slaughterhouse Five_, the one that runs
>backwards and makes the bombs go UP, back into the plane, people heal,
>etc.

In _Ulysses_ Stephen Dedalus imagines using a shotgun to blow to pieces a man
who has offended him, then imagines playing the film backwards to put him back
together, friends again, that's all right, shakey-shake.  Probably in the
'Proteus' episode, I think.  (Have to play it back.)

cheers, brian



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