Duck Soup

[Jay Herzog]

Duck Soup is one of my favorite movies of all time, and its somehow
more relevant than ever today.

I can't wait to see how Pynchon employs Groucho in AtD (considering
the timeframe it'd be his vaudeville days).

"We got guns, they got guns, all god's chillun got guns!"

On 11/2/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Watched it the other day. If I had seen it before reading GR... Now I can
> picture the characters suddenly lapsing into silly songs exactly the way
> Freedonians did, and all the "bad" puns said by Groucho. The mirror
> pantomime scene was a real killer.
>
> Now I also come to appreciate better this blurb:
>
> "I've been turning pages day and night, watching my fingers go ink black,
> I've been bleeding from paper cuts, reading Gravity's Rainbow. Forests have
> gone to the blade for this novel. Don't mourn the trees; read the book.
> Gravity's Rainbow will be compared with Ulysses and with Duck Soup."
> Geoffrey Wolff, San Francisco Examiner

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