How to top saying that it was John Huston's career-topping last movie? The best of better films? A labor of love for a beloved writer?
My revision of that scene would be a metaphor for the old Althouse crowd. One by one they self-identify like guests at a dinner party that never really happened in real life.
The context was Irish -- as certain as Joyce was constrained to what he knew best. But, the theme is universal and cuts across literary media.
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I can't watch all that though made it to five minutes. And what the hell did Joyce know anyway. A drunken philandering Irishman, who knew how to write, what a surprise.
Sorry, the above penned by a similar half drunken half Irishman. Though I may have a point nonetheless.
I very much like that short story and Houston did a fine job with the film.
I agree, ELB. A masterpiece of a story, and a gem of a movie.
I loved that movie. Often thought about the speech towards the end.
This scene, Lem?
Where are the children?! But maybe that's the secret to the scene's being so civilized like -- no children!
The children were all with Mary Poppins, ricpic. Who was going to invite her?
I think the dinner party actually takes place on the Feast of the Epiphany, and so a perfect setting for a whole bunch of little epiphanies.
Thanks Lydia. I knew that once but forgot.
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