The Master (2012)..possible thematic spoiler(s)

[Markekohut]

And some---me----cannot help but think of what TRP has written about charisma in regard to this
movie.

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On Sep 22, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have now seen it and I urge all but I will only here say that it does seem clear to me
> that Anderson has been reading Pynchon. Monroe has links below. The against the day
> Line hits you like a surprise and Hoffmann's late little speech is the siege of Paris and has C of Lot 49 allusions as well, I think.
> 
> I will also suggest the embodiment of the theme below---also part of ATD, IMHO, but also not only there
> And not easily provable . 
> 
> the theme of transcendence--- vs. our irreducible human, partly animal,selves. All the religious 
> Stuff so lampooned in ATD and all the love of the world that is not. 
> 
> As above, so below.
> 
> I think Anderson, like an artist, plays with this in his movie-changed way and vision.
> 
> 
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>>>> 
>>>> On Friday, September 21, 2012, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>>> ... @ least a couple of what I'm taking as obvious Against the Day
>>>> references, @ very least, not only to the "pigeon post" during the
>>>> siege of Paris (AtD Ch. 1, p. 19) ...
>>>> 
>>>> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_19
>>>> 
>>>> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Garçons_de_%2771
>>>> 
>>>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114462
>>>> 
>>>> ... + see as well, e.g., ...
>>>> 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post#Pigeon_post_of_Paris
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Airlift-Balloon-Pigeon-Siege-Paris/dp/B0000CMMIP
>>>> 
>>>> http://parispigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/siege-of-paris-pigeon-post-and-balloon-mail/
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html
>>>> 
>>>> ... but the pointed use of the phrase "against the day" itself ("We
>>>> fought against the day and won") ...
>>>> 
>>>> The Master (2012)
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.themasterfilm.com/
>>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)
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