Tressell, Ellison, Pynchon: Emulsion & Petrifying Liquids or Painting the Roses Red

[alice wellintown]

I read intellectual ambition when I was a lad and I renounced it then.
I had to publish some crap, but I wouldn't do it again for all the
money in Steve Cohen's off shore accounts.

 http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/intellambition.htm

On 7/25/13, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Such pompous pronouncements, Alice, do not endear, nor do they illuminate.
>  Write a book, why dontcha? Maybe then you can make a buck or two, instead
> of blowing into the wind.
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> On Thursday, July 25, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
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>> So, if the young scholar has got it right and not knowing film prevents a
>> reader of GR from an appreciation of the masterpiece,
>> should one simply forgo reading it and read
>> AGTD?
>> AGTD, were it annotated, would need quite few entries on photography and
>> technic, and image making, moving and fixed,
>> but the encyclopedia of movie making, so essential to GR, is not,
>> obviously, so essential to the later and greater masterpiece.
>> That is, at first,
>> we may not appreciate how so much painting and flm and photography, the
>> technic, the chemistry, is essential to both.
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>> And, since P writes about labor. His work on painting, photography, and
>> film are all reeled into his labor themes.
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>> http://www.academia.edu/2038506/Still_Moving_Against_the_Day_Pynchons_Graphic_Impulse
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