On 3/10/2011 12:34 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> I count at least 5 speakers. A 13 year old Swiss girl, her 19 year old sister, their grandmother, their grandmother's sister, and the male film archivist. Perhaps the quality of the acting (and a talented subtitler) helped me render convincingly "real" speakers. I'm barely detectable in the third stanza, at fifth remove from the film's director, his editor, the character of the film archivist editing, and the lead character Lucy in her attempt to learn about her doppelganger by learning how to access images stuck in outdated formats.
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> Barry
I realize there were multiple speakers from your response to Doug,
Barry. I suspect if I'd paid more attention to previous snaps, many of
which I missed, I'd known more what you were doing. However, I /did
/hear the different voices, but attributed them to the free association
of someone in a strange mood. Psychotic? Or remembering back into many
phases of a long life? Or remembering things heard.
I perhaps have too great a need to find a unity in works of art. Here I
so much liked the punch line that I tried to make it wrap up a single
character. Which, I fear, I still would rather have it do than just be
a new character's input. As is, though, I like the poem a lot. It
certainly works as a kind of play.
--Bob
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