Lovely, funny, & taken on the run.
No to mention, very interesting on young Wilder....
Doug
On 31-May-06, at 10:46 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> MAUVAISE GRAINE
>
> [via Billy Wilder in 1934
> at the Monaco Garage,
> 42 Duchamp Blvd, Paris]
>
>
> But next time don’t make such a frantic entrance.
> A slight accident,
> dear good friend,
>
> so we’re going to Casablanca.
> Eight cylinders. 100 miles/hour.
> Everyone else . . .
> Do you want to go to the movies?
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6--01-06 (12:38 AM)
>
>
> Written while being startled by Billy Wilder’s first directorial
> effort,
> based on his own short story. I find no evidence that there was a
> literal “Duchamp Boulevard” in Paris. One could view this film as a
> chess
> game with moving vehicles (often “appropriated”), set to a jazz score.
> Jean-Luc Godard probably saw it before he made “Breathless”. Thanks
> to Tom
> Raworth for first alerting me to Wilder’s potential as a source for
> one’s
> own writing.
>
>
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The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
He takes Erato’s face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
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