I like them, Barry.
Am intrigued that the 3rd line of 'The Blood' could be construed as a
'steal' from Leonard Cohen, while also just being a phrase everybody
does know & use. That's echo echoing...
On the other hand, your process always leads to sudden shifts, which
usually I enjoy trying to follow....
Doug
On 3-Jul-07, at 8:10 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> THE BLOOD
>
> via Pedro Costa
>
>
> There was no stopping her!
> How did you get it?
> Every body knows.
>
> But how?
> Let’s see what he thinks
> on his own.
> Only did it to save him!
> Don’t like restaurants--did you leave me alone?
>
>
> O SANGUE
>
> via Pedro Costa
>
>
> Only know about you because
>
> sometimes you scare me.
> A jury, boy.
> No stopping her!
> Gotten any letters?
> Us?
> Enough . . .
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 7-3-07 (9: AM)
>
>
> Written simultaneously during my first viewing of the first film by a
> Portuguese director whose reputation is ascending and whose live talk
> about
> his films was quite impressive. Tipped off in advance that this was a
> film
> dealing with the director's cinematic fathers (Harold Bloom's theories
> came
> to mind as the director talked afterwards), and that one shouldn't
> worry
> about oblique plot connections, I awaited the visual homages and hoped
> I
> wouldn't be that distracted by the writing performance I conceived for
> myself once I realized that the sum of letters in the Portuguese and
> English titles for the film fell exactly between a sonnet and a
> sixteener.
> Doubt that you need to have seen "The Blood" to follow my texts, but
> you
> could try a google search on the director & the film. Here's a link
> (scroll down) to all the information I had before I entered the
> auditorium:
>
> http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp
>
>
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