This is fine works beauty, indeed, Barry. I really like how you find the needed lines for the acrostic & they work to maintain the enigmatic of the originals..
Doug
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> THE GREAT BEAUTY
>
> via Paolo Sorrentino
>
>
> The hell you are doing . . .
> have to pack & I don't like people around
> enough to forget.
>
> Got off to a bad start;
> reply in a serious way.
> Ever talk
> a book entitled Visions & Revisions?
> Tolerate life . . . no longer
>
> banished to the burbs etcetera . . .
> Elisa always loved you. Exactly.
> At my age a beautiful woman isn't enough.
> Unknown quantity to me--
> these intellectual acrobatics lend
> you dignity.
>
> Barry Alpert / Rockville MD / 3-7-20 (11:32pm) >> 3-21-20 (2:32pm)
>
> Revised while sorting thru versions of Arvo Part's SPIEGEL IM SPIEGEL,
> a musical composition which enabled my editing process after nearly 2
> weeks of struggle with what I wrote in my journal while watching (on dvd)
> Sorrentino's THE GREAT BEAUTY for the 4th time. I choose to recommend
> the most visually striking edition of the numerous performances of Arvo Part's
> composition because of its synchronistic rhyme with a surprising portrait of yours
> truly--painted by a Peruvian/American artist during an overlapping time period
> started when she invited me to write in her artists book/journal while she snapped
> approximately 100 photos of me in her imagined model's pose on which she based
> her painting. What did I write on that occasion: "Will I begin anew a cine-poem
> via The Great Beauty or continue from the acrostic revised & just presented to the
> world this week."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDoXRPgZ_gY&list=LLmrz0aUmzOLF3wGCUMaN3ig&index=7&t=0s
>
> 4-01-20 (2:30pm)
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The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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