ATDTDA (13) - Bria

[kelber at mindspring.com]

http://www.grandguignol.com/history.htm

The Grand Guignol.  The tradition lives on in crappy movies like Saw, et al.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
>Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:08 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: ATDTDA (13) - Bria
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>p 354:
>"'Problem'?  It should be an *unhappy* ending?" Bria puzzled.
>"Like those bloody horror shows they put on over there in 
>Paris, France?"
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>French revolution?  guillotine?  Still famous today,
>another 100 years later, so why not?
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>kelber:
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>> ...instead of two different pieces of one body, there are now two complete individuals walking around, who are identical in every way, capisci?'" (bottom of p. 354-355)
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>and Bria: (355)
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>"Is it a happy ending?  Do they go back to being
>one person again?"
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>He stared at his shoes, and Bria understood that she
>was maybe the only one in the house he could've counted on
>to ask this question.
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>(maybe not germane, but Briah is one of the 4 worlds
>in Cabbalism http://www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/qbl/4worlds.html)
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>> The film "The Prestige" came out a couple of weeks before ATD and
>> deals precisely with this intersection of magic and science. Worth seeing for anyone who hasn't already (and much better than the book version).
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>and there's a representation of Tesla's Colorado installation...
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