It does rather sum up the cognitive stance that a true scientist
balances with true sensorium, doesn't it?
> Would anyone like to watch the movie and discuss?
(Is anyone geek enough to have watched it almost to memorization?)
[Alex raises his hand.]
> Another person who cannot be ignored is Unbertyo Ecco, novelist, screen
> writer and professor of semiotics. His most well known work "The name of
> the rose" contains an an interesting look at Aristotle's Theory of
> Comedy. That would make good study as well.
Actually, I prefered FAUCAULT'S PENDULUM; the idea of fiction giving
rise to fact, life from art, amuses me. Especially if you tie in
references to some of the major occult developments in the Western
world.
> Does anyone else have any suggestions for a movie-night?
Almost any B-grade action movie involving lots of bang-bang and little
Plot. Break it down memetically, what is it trying to /tell you/? What
memes are being engendered on your end of the conduit?
After taking in Western work, get THE KILLER, directed by John Woo.
Compare and contrast the memetic messages you derive from that movie to
the Western-writte and -directed one.
--
Alexander Williams {thantos@alf.dec.com / zander@photobooks.com}
Prefect of the 8,000,000th Terran Overlord Government Experimental
Strike Legion, Primary Transport TOG "Bellatores Inquieti"
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You ride in 250 tons of molecularly aligned crystalline titanium
wedded to a ceramic ablative matrix. You carry a 200mm Gauss
cannon, two massive 10-gigawatt lasers, two SMLM fire-and-forget
missiles, a Vulcan IV point defense anti-missile system, and a
deadly assortment of other equally lethal weapons.
Your vehicle is the ultimate product of 4,000 years of armored
warfare.
Your life expectancy is less than two minutes.
-- RENEGADE LEGION:
CENTURION