That's an amazing thought. Very, very cool, Tasha. I can't wait to read this chat, and I'm more sorry than ever that I had to miss it.

Awesome!
Exciting choices—this is great!

I'll miss the first half
but I hope to make the second.

Yeah, the mystery of Resnais and Duras. Did they walk the land in the same primeval era? Or could they, perhaps, have once exchanged a knowing nod as one rode past the other in a carriage? I mean, there are only 10,900 results when you search for Resnais + Duras using Google Books; they're mentioned on each other's…

Thank Oswald Defence Lawyer. I would never have found it without his link to it back in the announcement thread. Where is a subtitled version, that's what I'd like to know. And no DVD?

What a terrific post.
You sir, will rise to the top on your merit alone.

What a terrific post.
You sir, will rise to the top on your merit alone.

You can see it, too! You'll just have to read along in English, as there are no subtitles. My French is terrible, but the film literally follows the book almost exactly, and with frequent glances at the text, you should always know what's going on. (Well, at least as much as you would know in the book.)

I once hid in my house with my lights out, convinced that the guy pounding on my door was the boyfriend of the woman I had accidentally cut off in traffic the day before, and that he had tracked me down through my license plate and was there to beat me to death because he felt my behavior was symptomatic of a society…

That made me laugh as well, and roll my eyes. It made me wonder if it's supposed to be a comedy, in the manner of WAITING FOR GODOT—but no, I don't think it is—and it made me wonder if Margarite Duras had ever made me a latte. It's got to be that something has been lost in translation, right?

I think Duras felt subtlety to be too important to ever explicitly state that all the characters are part of just one…though the back of the book speaks only of Elisabeth Alione…but as I've said, I do think she meant that to be an understood metaphor, that they were all one as pieces of the Void.

DISCUSSION QUESTION: whose commentary is more incisive: Miller's…or Miller Can't Log in At Work's? They're both pretty good.

Sounds pretty similar to NEON BIBLE—
a bit scuzzier maybe…perhaps chillwave-influenced?

All right, but maybe DESTROY was an inspiration, but Haneke corrected her too-subtle approach. Maybe. I haven't seen CODE UNKNOWN since it was in theaters, so my memory of it may be severely flawed.

What an astute observation! It's so right on that I wonder if CODE UNKNOWN was directly patterned after DESTROY. Think about it, they even end the same, with bizarre music slowly overwhelming everything. Bach in DESTROY, marching band drums in CODE.

Yeah, I'd like these discussions for literally every book I read. I think they make us all better readers, too—for instance, I think the discussions have gotten more in depth as they've progressed. They're mind-expanding.

I suppose if the book is supposed to be like The Void, or like existence itself, then it should keep us at bay somewhat…but yeah, I agree.

True—I guess I just meant structurally and tonally, not just that the book is the work of its author.

All-time favorite things about this website:

I'd like to take back my previous comment on this thread. I just don't like Slipknot's music. This guy could have been really cool in his own way, and even if he wasn't, I don't think coolness should be a necessary prerequisite for staying alive.