time in fiction (fwd)

[dennis grace]

D. A. Fledermaus posits:

>That's Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein the Russian filmmaker, who, while
>having some rather well developed (pun only partially intended) ideas
>about time and metaphor, bears little or no resemblance to Walter Matthau
>look-alike and noted Southwest Joisey gadfly Albert Einstein. Einstein's
>only truly great film work was as Meg Ryan's co-star in I.Q. and in that
>Australian flick with the air guitarist/sheepherder. (emoticon excluded in
>hope that sarcasm is recongizable on this, if any, list). 

You missed _Significance_, in which Marilyn Monroe, having just shot the
famous blown skirt scene from _Seven-Year Itch_, discusses Special
Relativity with Albert in a hotel room, causing Joltin' Joe to want to knock
his block off.

A-and telling us that we should recognize sarcasm is tantamount to emoticons
in juvenilizing capacity. Not quite as puerile though :-D

dgg
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Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist
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