A cinematic cure for Sputtering George

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 15 11:37:48 CDT 2002


Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer wrote: 

>>I have a dear friend whose theory it is that GW COULD pronounce both "nuclear" and "terrorism" properly if he were allowed to but that his handlers require him to act illiterate to fool the bad guys.  Despite my great love of this individual and the respect with which I usually greet his theories, I think this one is completely cinematic...>>

What W needs to do is replace one of his Nixon's war machine left-overs
with one of RayGuns cinematic left-overs.  Obviously the man is not
illiterate (in the common sense). He's has, apparently,  read the Bible
and the great philosopher, Jesus. His parents, I assume, invested time
and money  to cure him of illiteracy (in the not so common sense of
violating prescribed standards of speech), but sometimes nothing can
cure this form of illiteracy. A Raygun left-over would film W in a
classroom filled with gifted and illiterate (brilliant and verbally
challenged) children. She would use a lot of film, most of it would end
up on the cutting room floor. But the Raygun left-over would splice
together some heart wrenching shots. The President would talk about how
he  plans to spend tons of money on these future scientists, lawyers,
teachers, public servants. One of kids, say one with a very bad lisp and
an IQ of 165, would stutter through a thank you letter to the President
and the President would only need to act naturally, sputter a bit of
nonsense and smile. A little rouge, a little stiff-stuff, cue cards,
cut, cut, splice, tears, laughter, smiles, hugs, melodrama. More
melodrama! Brilliant Mr. President. Just brilliant!



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