1984
yikes! read this and weep.
more reading i've been doing...and definately not for my class:
i stayed up most of last night reading In Cold Blood by truman capote. partly i couldn't put it down because it is a well written and gripping story, however the more dominant reason why i had to stay up was i scared mindless. if i turned off the light, i was just inviting all the ex-cons (who really do live in my neighborhood) in right through the open windows. this was all brought about by watching the preview for the new movie about truman capote writing said book. i've always had a little crush on philip seymour hoffman but his accent for this movie has consumed me. i watched the preview several times with increasing glee quoting the short phrases, "of the four matisses hanging on her wall, two were upside down." "kansas bureau of investigation, K-B-I." "when i think about how good my book will be i can hardly breathe."
i didn't realize that truman capote was a childhood neighbor of harper lee and that she based her character dill in To Kill A Mockingbird on him. i suppose, if you were my neighbor, you'd be getting tired of the voice and catch phrases i keep parroting.
more reading i've been doing...and definately not for my class:
i stayed up most of last night reading In Cold Blood by truman capote. partly i couldn't put it down because it is a well written and gripping story, however the more dominant reason why i had to stay up was i scared mindless. if i turned off the light, i was just inviting all the ex-cons (who really do live in my neighborhood) in right through the open windows. this was all brought about by watching the preview for the new movie about truman capote writing said book. i've always had a little crush on philip seymour hoffman but his accent for this movie has consumed me. i watched the preview several times with increasing glee quoting the short phrases, "of the four matisses hanging on her wall, two were upside down." "kansas bureau of investigation, K-B-I." "when i think about how good my book will be i can hardly breathe."
i didn't realize that truman capote was a childhood neighbor of harper lee and that she based her character dill in To Kill A Mockingbird on him. i suppose, if you were my neighbor, you'd be getting tired of the voice and catch phrases i keep parroting.
posted by Ellen at 1:38 PM
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ok, but what is the relevance of 1984? just curious. :)
Boo? Boo Radley was Truman Capote? Who sounds eerily like David Sedaris?
Ooops... Dill. I loved Dill.
the article i linked to was about the government "big brother" tracking us by our color laser copies. so, 1984 is a reference to george orwell's book by the same title. check it out if you haven't read it...it's totally creepy. and here's a quote from it:
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
OIC. i didn't even realize that was a link. suddenly everything clicks into place, hehe. i've read 1984, totally loved it. totally loved 'to kill a mockingbird'. haven't read 'in cold blood' tho, i'll have to check that one out.
so, i read a book in which the first-person narrator went to the kansas town where all this actually took place (the events in "in cold blood") and no one there will talk about it, and no one has even read the book. i can't remember the name of this book. he was trying to interview the town about truman capote.
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