Tears of a Clown / sobering up / narrative momentum

[Joe Allonby]

On 11/4/05, Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen Jerry Lewis' notorious "The Day the Clown Cried"?
>
> "The Shooting Script" is a detective novel with "The Day the Clown
> Cried" as the McGuffin
>
> review here: http://thebestreviews.com/review26422
>
> ---------
>
> drunk with good prose, I've been nattering on about Theodore Roosevelt.
> I'm dropping that as of now.
>
> It's a cool sidelight for me, but it probably doesn't mean all that
> much. I've probably been building up the phantasmagoria more than it
> deserves too. But it's a really difficult image, and I got a lot out
> of trying to picture it.
>
> Now if I could just get some kind of a good feeling about the blue
> baize/glyptic/terrible paper games at Whitehall, I could probably focus
> on the bigger actions in the chapter.
>
> I'm building up these things that caught my eye at the expense of
> losing the narrative momentum. Good thing TRP didn't!
>
>
Something tells me that TRP would love this fucking goddawful movie.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20051106/09ffe97f/attachment.html>