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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 27, 2021, 02:25:50 pm ---I was reading about the biography of Elizabeth Hardwick in the November 22 issue, where it says she grew up in the South, and later it pinpoints her origin to around Lexington, Kentucky. I don't think of that as the South, do you? It is only 50 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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But why is it scandalous to compare Edna St. Vincent Millay to Jo March? ???
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 12, 2021, 10:28:45 pm ---But why is it scandalous to compare Edna St. Vincent Millay to Jo March? ???
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Did I say it was scandalous? I don't remember saying that. I know Jo March was thought to stand in for the author, Louisa May Alcott, and there were several things about Alcott that were scandalous at the time, according to this article.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 13, 2021, 11:34:32 am ---Did I say it was scandalous? I don't remember saying that.
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You didn't. According to the article, if I read the sentence correctly, Elizabeth Hardwick said it was scandalous.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 12, 2021, 12:08:59 am ---The Dec. 13 issue's book review/essay about Greta Garbo, by longtime staff writer Margaret Talbot, quotes someone saying that when movie closeups came along, "people literally lost themselves in the human image." Wait, what? I mean, she's quoting someone else, but was anyone ever found wandering around a theater, confused about where themselves had gone?
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:laugh: Actually I sort of felt that way after seeing Brokeback Mountain for the first time. I was kind of in a daze. My daughter took my arm and said, "Mom, are you all right?"
Front-Ranger:
ANother interesting passage from the Garbo review was a description in the scene from "Flesh and the Devil" where "Garbo rolls a cigarette between her lips, then puts it between Gilbert's, her eyes never leaving his, as he strikes a match and illuminates their gorgeous, besotted faces." Doesn't that remind you of a similar scene in "Power of the Dog"?
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