Spoilers: correcting a movie incident

[Chris Sweet]

Keith Brecher wrote:
> 
> At 11:24 AM 5/21/97 -0400, KENNETH HOUGHTON wrote:
> >     Right idea; wrong movie.  It's a Bergman film that he refuses to see,
> >     just after belitting Andrew Sarris; he suggests _The Sorrow and the
> >     Pity_ (whose opening credits are notably not in Swedish) instead.
> >
> Kenneth--
> Reading your post I had a sinking feeling maybe analogous to what Paul
> DiFillipo felt when he found out that Jackson in M&D's dedication referred
> to TRP's son and not to money. Because, goddamnit, you're right. I
> apologize in advance to anybody crazy enough to depend on me for accurate
> information. I'm wrong about 67% of the time. One thing I am right about,
> however, is that William T. Vollmann's name has two n's at the ennd, a
> mistake I've been seeing somewhat frequently around here lately, though,
> frankly, who really cares since it's great to see Vollmann discussed here
> at all. He's the original sort of writer that that blasted DFW can only
> aspire to in his wildest nightmares.
> 
> Keith


Hell, Little Brown even made that mistake on the back of the hardcover
version of Infinite Jest.

-chris

Vollmann home page new address: http://home1.gte.net/csweet/vollmann.htm