Matthew Francis wrote:
> High on the list of books I daydream about writing is The Waste Land - The
> Novel, which would assimilate all the fragments into a realistic portrait
of
> 20s London. About as anti-Modernist a project as you can get, and in any
> case the copyright problems would be too much (as they nearly were for
> Rowson, apparently).
Surely this depends how slavishly literal you were in your adaptation. Have
you ever seen the 1939(?) film The Petrified Forest, with Humphrey Bogart &
Leslie Howard, and seen how that uses (sometimes ridiculously) motifs from
The Waste Land?
George
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