Thanks, Doug. I wasn't absolutely sure about the quality of this snap, so
your usage "lovely" convinces me that the poem can work for others. And
I've continually felt that a recent viewing of the filmic source doesn't
seem necessary to reading the text, which has much more to do with Godard's
aesthetics than this particular film. Barry
On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:06:57 -0600, Douglas Barbour
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>Lovely, and 'taking liberties' allows 'post-romantic richness' to be
>'lost'...
>
>among other things....
>
>Doug
TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT JLG
Prefect infrastructures speak as though quoting the truth.
La region parisienne poses while merely reinforcing.
I’m picking up messages from Beyond:
I saw a movie in which the sister of
Flaherty’s “Nanook” channels “Orpheus”.
People never really talk in the cinema:
post-romantic richness would be lost.
We no longer need chance events
to photograph or kill . . .
Is poetry formative, or is it just an embellishment?
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 5-23-07 (3:09 PM)
Intuitively drafted during a viewing of Jean-Luc Godard’s recently
restored 1967 film “2 or 3 Things I Know About Her”. A fair amount
of “interference” extended the process of revision, and I took more
liberties than usual with the language provided by the subtitles.
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