Heres an Essay I Wrote About The Bleeding Edge Book Trailer

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 23:03:41 CDT 2013


No spoilers here...but doesn't it seem like a typically humble take, the
wiseacre kid who wrote about Nueva York in V. not having learned a gosh
darn thing, writing about the City again 50 years later?

"after a bunch of journeyings, to, like, come back & know the place for the
1st time"

Or - now this is a quote from pg 143 - scroll down if not keeping
perception virginal -






"ain't like I was ever Alfred Hitchcock or somethin.
You can watch my stuff till you're crosseyed and there'll never be any
deeper meaning.
I see something interesting, I shoot it is all."

Well anyway, that's the big angle I'm cogitating on for the nonce, BE vis a
vis V.  And the implausible denial, a storytelling tradition, of high-flown
or wide-ranging or deeply meaningful aspirations.

I am truly not going to develop this right now - attention span issues as
well as "too soon" - but it does seem kinda juicy for a compare / contrast
at some pt.
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