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I'll Take My Epitaph for Moose From Pessoa
Kevin Jackson was a great critic and friend of the programme. He died suddenly just over a week ago, leaving behind a cabinet of curiosities. The film is cloth eared to a degree that i have almost never encountered in a translation into modern english. There are certain devices that one thinks of as purely visual and sinnematic which in a way, grow out of literature. And if you look in homer, there are reverse shots, as it were, chrisplos modern translations of the iliad do this act rather brilliantly,. We will say, the e reverse cut too. So and so the reveal a uniquely synematic device, and one that can be
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