VLVL Ditzah

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Wed Dec 31 23:32:16 CST 2003


See 198.15-22 for a description of the content of a considerable portion of
that 24fps footage, and of what Ditzah and Zipi most typically turned their
technical talents towards, their frustration "at the impossibility of
getting any of these hippie chicks to do anything on the beat".

Is Ditzah showing the film ("reel after reel" of it, pp. 197-8) primarily
for Prairie's benefit, or so that she and DL can reminisce (see 196.4-10 in
particular)? What evidence is there in the text of Ditzah's supposed
"warmth" towards Prairie? Seems to me that she and DL become so engrossed in
their indulgent nostalgia trip that they forget that Prairie's even there.

best





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