Sunday, October 21, 2007

homage to Proust

--Among the 35 top-earning films of all time, measured by worldwide theatrical gross receipts (unadjusted for inflate), all but two (“Forrest Gump” and “The DaVinci Code”) can be classified as spectacle, fantasy, or animation.—NEW YORKER, p. 110, 10-22-2007—Actually, some of us would classify GUMP and DaVINCI as fantasy, but hey, THE NEW YORKER defines USA culture…

-- The reality is that human beings ultimately desire to achieve rapture. … If human beings cannot break through to the Paradise I have described, they will embrace any third-rate unmediated experience which approximates It. –EXTREME PROUST, sec. 85

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