Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 9:06 |
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En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
>
> Just on the edge of the vast deserts of Louisiana, where poor Manon
> Lescaut
> took refuge......I intended, but failed, to see the scandalous French
> film
> of the 50s or 60s, "Je cracherai sur vos tombes", which featured a
> Southern
> Plantation located in......New Jersey. Lord, the junk that sticks in
> one's
> mind.
>
Well, the novel "J'irai cracher sur vos tombes" was really a parody of American
pulp stories from Boris Vian (signing here as Vernon Sullivan), and this kind
of inexactitudes was put there on purpose. As for the movie, it's interesting
to know that Vian died while watching a preview of that movie, which he didn't
approve of :)) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.