NP, but Kubrick

[Mark Kohut]

A fascinating question, Monte, and I go with Paul's suggestion. In fact, my impressionistic memory of early bookselling days
in the late sixties in Pittsburgh was that this Carngie book outsold the Friends one.....but carries no weight, I know..
(decades later when I learned something about the publishing of these books, I was alittle self-surprised that Friends
launched the series, for example, since I half-thought that it must have stoarted with Worry.....)
 
Some fun searching in Google Books for that subtitle and partials---such as "learning to love"---
NOT in the Andrew Carnegie book, it seems, or "learning to love the bomb"----elicits no citations
before the movie subtitle---[but not conclusive, of course, since not much then that might prove otherwise]
is in Google Books or books that later noted the earlier use.......maybe need the search that includes newspapers?...........
 
Lotsa stuff about how The Bomb was in the culture at the time...
 
Going to Strangelove and Kubrick.....we can learn that Kubrick's working draft titles had nothing like that......as
the script got worked over by first him, then Terry Southern and Nelson George..........
 
Pauline Kael in a much later piece about Kubrick made this point saying we had always assumed the subtitle was satiric
but maybe Kubrick did love the machinery of war.....etc......
 
I vote out of the air that the satiric subtitle came from Terry Southern........
(but of course if he picked up the pharase from the culture then Monte's question now just applies to him.)


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From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: NP, but Kubrick

On 4/3/2012 12:01 PM, Monte Davis 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!



How to Stop Worrying and Start Living--Dale Carnegie

P


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