A visibly artful and oneiric film...

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 08:19:35 CDT 2011


I never knew the word before.

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/o.html

Oneirine

166; (oneiric - "dreamlike"); "Oneirine and Methoneirine. Variations
reported by Laszlo Jamf in the ACS Journal" 348; intoxicant developed
by Jamf--induces time modulation, 389; Greta's addiction to, 463-64;
"Oneirine Jamf Imipolex A4. . ." 464; "That oneiric season" 475; Wimpe
"dumping all of his Oneirine samples on a party of American tourists
back in hilltop Transylvania" 684; mantic archetypes and the Pökler
singularity, 702; "Oneirine hauntings show a definite narrative
continuity, as clearly as, say, the average Reader's Digest article.
[...] 'the dullest hallucinations known to psychopharmacology' [...]
some radical though plausible violation of possibility" 703; See also
dope; dreams/dreaming


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Foax
>
> NP, just a stumbled-upon reference. 'Crossfire' (1947) is described as a "visibly artful and oneiric film" here, the word rang a bell:
>
> http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2005/07/crossfire-1947-7112005.html



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