NP - Blood Meridian

[Charles Albert]

I hate this...

The bit twiddlers always default your intention away from the possessive
and to the contraction.


.....its eyes......


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 10:25 AM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I thought we talked about some rumor that Ridley Scott had picked up the
> rights a few years ago...
>
> Don't see why you couldn't make a remarkable movie of it, but it would be
> too brutal to watch...
>
> Has anyone read The Getaway?
> If you wanna see the industry avert it's eyes to give you the ending you
> have the strength to handle....
>
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:14 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Give me a big budget and I'll have a go at it.
>> But seriously, it seems a book that could be made into a film. Will be
>> someday. Sure it will be a film. Maybe a great one, like the way
>> Cuckoo's Nest is a great film, but not made like the book. Anyway, I
>> liked the essay and I wonder how BM fits into Mark's link the other
>> day about Calvinism and the Western American novel.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 4:45 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's a great novel. I was just reading this article about it being
>> > "unfilmable", something they say a lot about great novels (i.e. TRP,
>> Gaddis
>> > &c):
>> > https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/blood-meridian-movie
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:42 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I think this is a great novel.  I'm not sure if it knows it is a Moby
>> Dick
>> > > allusion.  But it is high drama in service of high art.
>> > >
>> > > David Morris
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