Bianca

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Monte Davis wrote:

> PM:
>> For me it's Katje. Just walking across a room. She doesn't
>> have to do anything, or say anything
>
> Ah, but is it really Katje herself... or *watching* Katje at 24fps,  
> the
> projector clattering, alone in your nasty little private screening  
> room?

Yes, yes . . . .
>
> "It was difficult even for us, old fans who've always been at the  
> movies
> (haven't we?) to tell which..."
>


Alone in the dark we aren't distracted by a lot of extraneous stuff.

Pynchon must  have loved Proust.

A marvelous scene in which the narrator is watching Albertine while  
she is asleep and thinking how nice it is
that he can concentrate wholly upon himself.