Chasing ... Cutting

[Dave Monroe]

But also, "A screaming comes across the sky" ... again, watched Is Paris
Burning? (Rene Clement, 1966) last night.  Early in the film, there's a
scene where Leslie Caron, who has acquired release papers (through the
intervention of Orson Welles) for her captured Resistance leader husband
(Tony Taffin), attempts to locate him as prisoners are being loaded into
a concentration camp bound train.  Don't want to give anything away,
but, as the train finally pulls out, Caron's screams bleed into the
train's very similar whistle ...

Well worth seeing.  Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Orson Welles, Gert
Frobe, Alain Delon, Charles Boyer, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert
Stack, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand, Hannes Messmer, Simone Signoret,
Jean-Louis Tritignant, all sorts of people you'll recognize, by sight if
not by name, about the occupation, liberation of Paris.  I only saw the
short (presumably, American) version (not the full 174 mins., that's for
sure), but ...

But, again, those palimpsests, have no problem with a couple of things
going on at once, esp. in a dream, under dream logic, though perhaps
I've been set up for a certain ... indeterminacy in re: where, when,
who, why, how, what's going on by attempts at things like Samuel
Beckett's The Unnamable or Alain Robbe-Grillet's Topology of a Phantom
City.  But I think that'd be a necessary survival trait for Gravity's
Rainbow ...

Dave Monroe wrote:

> Have been re(and re-, and re-, and re)reading those opening pages of
GR again, and, speaking of
> that "crystal palace," The Crystal Palace, maybe even that
Kristallnacht, can't help but notice
> the following (again, sorry 'bout neglecting the Bantam pagination,
but this is all in the
> first several pages of the book, in the first episode, easily
located).  Pardon me if this has
> already been covered, but ...