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"Who knows what got pushed up his rectum? Who cares?"

I know this book was published in 2002 and is ostensibly about the filmic 20th century, but goddamn if reading it isn't the equivalent of perceptually experiencing the internet here in late 2015. And yep, I'm sure I'll recycle that idea in my review, so what?

"-It's wonderful what you can learn from a silly old dick, doctor!
-Ex pene Herculem, my dear."

"The subject, as you can see, was God's Cunt, which unfortunately seemed to lend itself to obscure abstractions and too much indiscriminate flocking with pubic hair. My own favorite of the lot, quite frankly, is this simple realistic portrait of an old gramophone speaker."

"One must libidinize the hunting grounds."

"Eighteen minutes of his life: how to judge them? And how judge the eighteen minutes just spent watching them? Or these passing ones, reflecting on reflections? With tears in his eyes..."

Crazy strong writing here - this is seriously controlled image making

"The eye courses the valley to its yawning embouchure, past a scattering of obscure excrescences with bright tips, courses the defile to its radical, this pinched and woebegone pit, mourning its uprooted yew, her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted. Gravis. Innig. In bitterness, yes, con amarezza, she is with bitterness."

epiodion; synclinal; epicedial; - had to go to the dictionary three times on the first page. this is a good sign