04-01-2011, 03:08 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:There is also something lurking in my unconscious about Wilmington - just can't get it to focus at the present....
Lurking in my subconscious is the climactic scene in Leone's masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in America, immediately after Robert De Niro and James Woods have met in the oak-panelled office of Secretary Bailey, their lives come full circle, their childhood memories forever altered. When Noodles learns who Max became.
De Niro returns to the street outside the mansion. A dumpster truck rattles past, grinding its trash, turning all to dust. Does it contain the body of Max, the about to be disgraced Secretary Bailey?
A brightly lit car swings past from the other direction, containing innocent, celebrating youth, to the bars of God Bless America.
De Niro departs for the den, grimacing through the gauze as he sucks on Baudelaire's opium pipe....
This may be entirely irrelevant. However, we know They like their cultural references.....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war