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elegiac

it feels like this elegiac drift is less of an announcement of her beauty and presence, and more of an uncertain query as to whether she actually exists

—p.178 GLITTERED SHOULDERS - Douglas Sirk, 1961 (171) by Mark Savage
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the films are attributed to a fictional director

[...] There he found a group already churning out copies of Hollywood thrillers, and with them he'd make over five hundred films between 1948 and 1956. They were filmed in a mixture of English and Spanish, and starred American nobodies, European never-weres, and young Hispanic talent. These picture…

—p.135 DONNA, OR THE POWER OF CONSTANT THOUGHT - Hermoso Equipo, 1951 (131) by Mark Savage
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we used this book as a doorstep

A Book of Books: Quotes, Aphorisms and Sayings From The World of Literature (Norton 1985). We used this book as a doorstep to keep the living room door open. I referenced it when my homework needed some extra juice. The more tired or distracted I was, the quicker I turned to it. In April 1993 Mrs…

—p.123 THE LIBRARY AT QUEEN OF ALL SOULS - Leo McCarey, 1943 (121) by Mark Savage
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he must have smoothed over his footprints

[...] He must have smoothed over his footprints with snow in order to make this shot look perfect, Olga says at one point, referring to a composition called The Arrival. As the search goes on, they discover that some of the shots defy physics, particularly an image of Jan and the party on top o…

—p.105 BEHOLD THE AWESOME MOUNTAIN - Dexter Himmler, 1938 (101) by Mark Savage
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to harness the power without understanding it

Inadvertent magic is, we think, the best kind: the hazy coincidence, the series of signs not quite decoded. It can be the first recording of a song, before the words have clicked into place, when the flawed syntax catches the edge of a chord, and the hum of a misplaced microphone spills into the mi…

—p.103 BEHOLD THE AWESOME MOUNTAIN - Dexter Himmler, 1938 (101) by Mark Savage