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Thursday, September 23, 2004


Literature and Film 

Having finished reading Michael Moorcock's 2nd Eternal Champion volume, Von Bek, and wanting to move on to something a little more serious, I picked up Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby. As it turns out, the topics of Lullaby aren't that much more serious than Von Bek's dark themes, but the writing is far more credible and perhaps more important to the literary world. It's a fast paced story, which took me through the first 100 pages in a sitting, about a lullaby (or "culling song") that apparently has deadly potential.

On the film side of my narrative interests now lie Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's important series of short films, The Decalogue. Each one hour episode derives its theme from one of the Ten Commandments and explores relationships, love, contemporary spirituality in the face of real life situational ethics, and how all those intertwine to form us into the person we are. I'd love to discuss these with someone else who has seen them after I finish watching them all. Any takers?

It should also be noted that an infrequent visitor and even more infrequent commenter to my blog site will hereinafter be known as Macdaddy.

-R

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