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Andrew, Thanks. Revising that text called to mind my very early process of intuitively quarrying dialogue from American gangster films of the thirties and film noir of the forties & fifties, extrapolating from Tom Raworth's compositional strategy in "Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder". The intellectual reworking of that genre by the French New Wave directors had already legitimized the many hours I spent watching "B-movies", but I didn't know how I was going to write about them. Now I assume I'm going to encounter very likely language for my purposes when I witness such films for the first time, and even upon subsequent viewings. Barry