NP but The Master. full fall SPOILAGE ALERT

[Markekohut]

As if you all might care that I have four different attempts to write
a coherent essay-review of The Master. Like comedy, said the dying comedian, " It's hard" .
(May just post a 4 Ways of Looking at a Black Work on tumblr)

then, another real reader, movie-watcher,  who I want to be when I grow
up---Michael Wood (remember some of his fine Pynchon reviews?) ---
publishes this below.  

I am on record quoting Pynchon's " charisma, that terrible disease" which is Wood's
Focus although he doesn't use that quote.

And I would add after his "loose allegory" observation, that it is a direct blow
Against any, all, religions---Anderson said he has always remembered an insight
That religions 
Start after wars......( and most start out of desert cultures, which is why Hoffman's book
Is buried there, I say)

As Nabokov has saidabout rereading, I think this movie needs to be seen at least twice.
I've seen it thrice now and as in rereading a pynchon, it grows and I love it. (One bit
Of dialogue at the end I have still missed)



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> Subject: Fwd: @LRB, 10/4/12, 10:02 AM
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>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Date: October 4, 2012, 10:26:06 AM EDT
>> To: me <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Subject: @LRB, 10/4/12, 10:02 AM
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>> London Review (LRB) (@LRB)
>> 10/4/12, 10:02 AM
>> Philip Seymour Hoffman’s the Master is remarkable because it makes charisma seem so unsteady and so complicated. lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/michae…
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