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The NPR website also links to a video of "the scroll," the roll of paper Kerouac typed On the Road onto, being unrolled for display. I was reminded of the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars - it just goes on and on and on...
I believe that was Sergio Donati:
"In the first act you hang your main character up in a tree.
In the second act you throw stones at him.
In the third act he falls down.
If he is alive, it's a comedy.
If he's dead, it's a drama."
Abecedarian, thanks, I’ll keep that in mind! :D
Anamnesis, I mostly enjoy classic world cinema. Particularly films from the French New Wave. Netflix and the Criterion Collection are my cinematic godsends.
I was surprised by how light and easy the book was for me. When I first bought it, I thought was I going to be bogged down by very complex philosophical discourse that I would never understand, but although the book was very philosophical, I felt I had no trouble understanding what Milan Kundera...
Hello abecedarian, thank you for welcoming me. To answer your question, I would say that the books I tend to gravitate toward can be categorized as mid-20th century American literature, but that’s only because I really enjoyed Catch-22, On the Road, Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse-Five...
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want...