On alternate take on tearing out the page, ganked from Jezebel:
Don ripping out last page of book = Don trying to alter the course of his life so that it reaches a different conclusion.
TEH SYMBOLISM BLOWS MAH MIND, Y'ALL!!!
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
DavidS - Oct 14, 2008 2:06:54 pm PDT #1589 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
amych - Oct 14, 2008 2:07:43 pm PDT #1590 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pshaw. It's Faulkner. Nobody knows what the hell's going on by the time you get to the end anyway.
erikaj - Oct 14, 2008 2:14:38 pm PDT #1591 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
And Don strikes me as a guy who messes up books. Although I'm not very symbolic generally and haven't thought of it that way before.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2008 2:17:45 pm PDT #1592 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pshaw. It's Faulkner. Nobody knows what the hell's going on by the time you get to the end anyway.
Yeah, I was going to note that Faulkner isn't the type to reveal the murderer on the last page.
It was funny reading the Jezebel blog because they found the Eurotrash nomads to be Freaky and Threatening.
Whereas I was all luxuriating in their Felliniesque decadence.
Just because they drink and fuck and travel and lounge about doesn't mean they're the Manson family!
amych - Oct 14, 2008 2:23:10 pm PDT #1593 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Just because they drink and fuck and travel and lounge about doesn't mean they're the Manson family!
Oh, goodness no -- they were positively a postwar type! Totally made up continental nobility, claiming to be come down in station, and did I mention drinking all your champagne! Totally scam artists, but in a reasonably limited and entertaining kind of way.
erikaj - Oct 14, 2008 2:23:43 pm PDT #1594 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
They could be. But maybe they just have more money than sense. Actually, I had to laugh at them because when I was a teenager, I thought I'd grow up, move away and meet some.
Barb - Oct 14, 2008 2:46:26 pm PDT #1595 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
It was funny reading the Jezebel blog because they found the Eurotrash nomads to be Freaky and Threatening.
The amctv.com open thread was the same way. It was like "Don's totally getting grifted, man," with equal parts of "OMG, Naked Don!"
Whereas I was all luxuriating in their Felliniesque decadence.
Clearly, these folks have also never read big, glittery roman à clefs ala Judith Krantz or Jacqueline Susann.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2008 3:01:10 pm PDT #1596 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The other odd take in the blogs is presuming it's all a dream sequence of some kind.
Clearly they have not been watching their Fellini and Antonioni. Their heads would explode if they saw Last Year at Marienbad. Or possibly they would expire from ennui.
Hayden - Oct 14, 2008 3:03:19 pm PDT #1597 of 11998
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah, I was going to note that Faulkner isn't the type to reveal the murderer on the last page.
Funny, I wrote a post saying the same thing and then deleted it. Yeah, the last paragraphs of The Sound And The Fury are beautiful, but not exactly revelatory. At least, any more revelatory than the rest of the book.
Barb - Oct 14, 2008 3:06:32 pm PDT #1598 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
The other odd take in the blogs is presuming it's all a dream sequence of some kind.
Yeah, I saw that and was all, WTF?!? They think this is Dallas?
Or possibly they would expire from ennui.
Or just be really, really bored, man.
::pries tongue from cheek::