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You May Know Him As the Guy Whose Book Was Made Into the Movie ‘True Grit’
By Geo Ong Or you may not know him at all. His name is Charles Portis, and he’s an American novelist. Before True Grit was a Coen Brothers movie, it was a 1969 movie directed by a fella called Henry … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, atlantis, black humor, black humour, books, books into movies, catch-22, charles portis, coen brothers, comedy, fiction, gnomon society, gnomonism, henry hathaway, masters of atlantis, novels, pythagoras, the master and margarita, thomas pynchon, True Grit
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Lest You Prefer God-Awful Clothing
By Geo Ong In the play Endgame by Samuel Beckett, a character by the name of Nagg tells a story about a man visiting a tailor in England. Here is a somewhat paraphrased version of the story: An Englishman, needing a … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, clothes, drama, endgame, england, excerpts, fin de partie, god, play, samuel beckett, tailor, Theatre, theatre of the absurd
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Vera Chytilova’s ‘Daisies’: In Which Two Women Make a Mess of Things
By Geo Ong The 1960s saw, among many other things, the development and emergence of the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement in the country known then as Czechoslovakia. The films and filmmakers to come out of this artistic movement were … Continue reading →