Re: VL-IV: Moving right along... Chapter 9 (page 130)‏... once more in plain text...

[Michael Bailey]

,Amy E. Vorro:
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> (Aha, I should've used plain text - oops.)
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it's that 1994 retro feel, gotta love it...
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> So, I'm Amy and I've got Chapter 9 - this is my first time participating, so any pointers regarding etiquette or other such things are more than welcome.
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our hosts at WASTE (who do accept donations which is the only pointer
I can add of any value, and mention it periodically only to shame
myself into chipping in...) have set the tone:

Welcome aboard, gee, it's a fabulous or-gy
That you just dropped in on, my friend--
We can't recall just how it start-ted,
But there's only one way it can end!
The behaviour is bestial, hardly Marie-Celestial,
But you'll fit right in with the crowd,
If you jettison all of those prob-lems,
And keep it hysterically loud!

> (Stacy Olster has an article you're all probably aware of in The Vineland Papers, entitled "When You're a (Nin)jette, You're a (Nin)jette All the Way - or Are You?: Female Filmmaking in Vineland." I didn't have much luck finding a PDF of the article, but it's an interesting musing on the female ninja.)

drawin' a blank myself

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> Apparently the Ninja Death Touch attracts a lot of attention, much of it from dubious sources - it's a sexy idea and appears to have many names:
> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2509/is-the-ninja-death-touch-real
> I'm not personally interested in it or ninjas in general, but do like the enjoy of it in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (yes I know, QT is not respected amongst this group, I think it's a generational thing).
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maybe what's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction is a Fresson-process
photo of Brock Vond?

> Equally sexy is the 1966 Plymouth Fury in which DL escapes to Ohio (I could make another QT observation regarding Bill's monologue about Superman/Clark Kent, but will refrain...).
> http://www.stutzbach.com/images/Fury1966-2.jpg
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there are those who'd welcome the digression; Pynchon devotes the
better part of a page (and we all know what he can do in that much
space) to the phantasy here.  has something to do with the fairy tale
feel, perhaps (little sidelong muse at perhaps DL is Prairie's fantasy
of her mom)

in the exchange, Frenesi's viewpoint, or actually, her point of focus
never shifts from the incidents or events addressed by Superman - the
accident scene, the stoned technicians - and how it would be to
address those strictly as Clark Kent.  Whereas DL's projecting a
straight newspaper life with its non-reportorial satisfactions such as
the tavern and the feel of the newsroom.

this leads off in a couple different directions for me:
a) the idea of total commitment to a cause taking more and more of a
person's life (later detailed by Rex as well)
2) comparison of the Movement to Superman righting wrongs; and how as
so many of us have to take straight jobs to support life at least so
as to be there for the cause, and how perhaps we come to relish the
straight jobs and their perks as an opiate of the people...

anyway, welcome, Amy!


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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."