NP, but Kubrick

[Monte Davis]

Rich, Tom - agreed on Red Alert as narrative source; I'm asking about the
specific phrase "How. learned to love [something]." I'm chasing a dubitable
recollection that it was already in the air from another now-by-me forgotten
source, and that Kubrick's use was conscious echo that became the new locus
classicus. That could be 100% wrong. 

 

From: Tom Beshear [mailto:tbeshear at att.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:06 PM
To: rich; Monte Davis
Cc: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: NP, but Kubrick

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Alert_(novel)

 

Yeah, the source novel was a straight-ahead Cold War thriller -- the wiki
entry for Red Alert is interesting for showing how close the novel plot is
to the later Fail-Safe. The author sued for plagiarism and won a settlement.

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From: rich <mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com>  

To: Monte Davis <mailto:montedavis at verizon.net>  

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Subject: Re: NP, but Kubrick

 

I think it was based on a "straight' no laughs story. Kubrick realized it
was so 'horrific' he had to turn into a black comedy if memory serves

rich

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

Speaking of K:
It's my hazy recollection that the string "How I learned to stop worrying
and love [x]" already had some currency before its appearance as sub/alter
title to Dr. Strangelove. It's always had the flavor of parody, verbal
sendup, but the original is 100% subsumed by now. Was it echoing the title
of a memoir, a self-help  book? Or am I making this up? Au secours, Boomers
and wannabes!

MD

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Subject: NP, but Kubrick

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/stanley_kubricks_very_first_films_three_s
<http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/stanley_kubricks_very_first_films_three_
s%0Ahort_documentaries.html> 
hort_documentaries.html

LK

 

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