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[David Morris]

Nice.  Thanks.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:11 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just finished Mieville's novella The Last Days of New Paris and it's
> clearly influenced by GR. It's set in an alternate reality WWII Paris where
> Nazis battle surrealist artworks made manifest by a psychic explosion. It's
> a fun caper attempting to pay tribute to the more revolutionary energies of
> various Surrealist movements (with quite a lot of occultism to boot) and
> I'd say Pynchon's mix of politics, history and alternative culture and art
> made him worthy of a few obvious nods here.
>
> On 22 Nov 2017 6:46 AM, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know anything but this line about the book....but an homage that
>> starts
>> with "between" twice, second time about his imaginiings is a nice After
>> GR Literary Effect mho.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, homage.  You can't expect to get away with plagiarism of all those
>>> GR tropes.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hommage rather than plagiarism, surely?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:43 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> About as direct a reference as possible.  Almost plagiarism.
>>>>>
>>>>> David Morris
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:11 PM Mike <beider19 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> An interesting start to a paragraph in the middle of China Mieville's *the
>>>>>> last days of new paris*:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Between the trajectories of rocket falls, rainbow-shapes and
>>>>>> gravity, between his imaginings of the screamings across the sky..."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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