Patrick, I can understand why the opening word "truck" might lead you to
believe that the film during which I wrote down those 4 lines (and 2
outtakes) was a road movie focused on a travelling production of Puccini's
opera Tosca, but the original speaker meant "to engage with" and I continue
that usage in my recontextualization. Whatever speaker(s) might be
construed from the 4 lines shouldn't be identified with either the director
or me, though I can imagine the last line exiting my mouth, either with or
without the comma, in another circumstance. Benoit Jouvet didn't want to
make a filmed opera, and he distances the spectator by cutting away to
black & white video of the sound recording session and grainy color video
location shots in Rome. The opera itself was staged in a large studio in
Cologne. No trucks or moving vans ever appear on screen. Barry
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:16:18 +0100, Patrick Mc Manus
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>Barry---A road movie?? :-)
>P old atheist dog P
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>TOSCA
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> [via Benoit Jacquot]
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>Truck with these atheist dogs
>ourselves by making
>sacred starlit shadowy staircases.
>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>A performance, I know.
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>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 10-4-06 (1:58 AM)
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