tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post5526444185992796250..comments2024-02-11T12:24:26.294-08:00Comments on The Compass Rose: An Occurrence at the Bridge - Bierce & KeesCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41439155367140027452012-04-24T20:53:02.627-07:002012-04-24T20:53:02.627-07:00Great article. Thanks!
You know about the Twiligh...Great article. Thanks!<br />You know about the Twilight Zone episode of the Bierce short story?<br />Great! Actually a French short debuted at Cannes and aired on American TV as a Twilight Zone episode. From Wikipedia: "Two years after its production, the film was screened on American TV as part of the fantasy/science fiction show The Twilight Zone. Producer William Froug saw the film and decided to buy the rights to syndicate it on American television. The transaction cost The Twilight Zone $25,000 – significantly less than the average of $65,000 they expended on producing their own episodes. However, Froug’s purchase allowed for the film to be aired only twice (the first airing was on February 28, 1964). Consequently, it is not included on The Twilight Zone’s syndication package (although it is included on Image Entertainment's DVD box set of the original series and on the DVD Treasures of the Twilight Zone). The episode's introduction is notable for Rod Serling breaking the fourth wall even more than usual, as he explains how the film was shot overseas and later picked up to air as part of The Twilight Zone." <br /> I saw it with my cousins and we were shocked to death that night.six-toed voodoo kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447608007888946128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-31153751064231861142012-04-22T16:08:00.889-07:002012-04-22T16:08:00.889-07:00Curtis,
I like this interesting reflection on art...Curtis,<br /><br />I like this interesting reflection on art's tendency to kill its own: viz. that to those about to seek artistic truth anywhere in the world the vision in the end may be more than they can bear. Lowry's novel (one of my favourites!)is perhaps the most terrifying look into the horrors of illusion because there's no respite from it, just the sort of thing to drive the very sensitive to drink or over the edge.<br /><br />On a visit to San Francisco I recall looking over the bridge, and eerily feeling the cold grip of despair. I never wanted more badly to finish walking to the other side. But to me it was only the brief thrill of the sublime.<br /><br />What Kees and I saw could not have been more different though, of course, it was the same view of 'oblivion'.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com