GRGR(19): Notes pp. 421-433

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Jeremy Osner wrote:
> >
> > p. 429 "what he was showing the nation of starers": for some reason I
> > wrote "*Caligari to Hitler*" next to this phrase in my book; I could not
> > with any certainty explain why.
> 
> The Kracauer book might explain the cinematic use of light from two
> directions--the double light as it is called--somehow (God knows how)
> facilitating the multiple IIse's, or the Ilse/Biancas, or the Ilse/Katjes.
> 
>                         P.

GR.394  "from above and below at the same time, so that
everyone had two shadows: Cain's and Abel's."  And this
narrator says GR.429, "In the Zone, all will be moving under
the Old Dispensation, inside the Cainists' light and space:
not out of any precious Golleri, but because the Double
Light was always there, outside all film, and that shucking
and jiving ...in deep ignorance, then and now, of what he
was showing the nation of starers...so that summer Isle
passed herself by, too fixed at some shaodowless interior
noon to mark the intersection, or to care."  Beautiful
symbolism and metaphor, just beautiful.

And I will show you something different from either
your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you:
				T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland

Or your shadow at evening