V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 09:44:39 CDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

>> something else going on that's worth paying attention to and deriving
>> a counter-moral?
>
> And isn't that sooooooooooo much more successfully realized in "Against the
> Day," using more or less the same basic mis-en-scene as the Stencilization
> inside 'V."?
>
>

well, he had 40 some odd years to practise

tryin' to think (but nothin' happens) - what was I doing at 23?
my own version of the Great Work, I guess, but still.

V. - not too shabby...




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