NP but The Master. full fall SPOILAGE ALERT

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/4/2012 12:03 PM, Markekohut wrote:
> 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)

I'll definitely need subtitles.

P
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>>
>> *Date:* October 4, 2012, 11:41:47 AM EDT
>> *To:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com <mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com>>
>> *Subject:* *Fwd: @LRB, 10/4/12, 10:02 AM*
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>>
>>> *Date:* October 4, 2012, 10:26:06 AM EDT
>>> *To:* me <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>>
>>> *Subject:* *@LRB, 10/4/12, 10:02 AM*
>>>
>>> *London Review (LRB) (@LRB <https://twitter.com/LRB>)*
>>> 10/4/12, 10:02 AM <https://twitter.com/lrb/status/253857671818661890>
>>> Philip Seymour Hoffman’s the Master is remarkable because it makes 
>>> charisma seem so unsteady and so complicated. 
>>> lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/michae… <http://t.co/3LHCBxgM>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad

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