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This black comedy, set in a leprosarium, i find hard to believe could ever have been accepted as sincere among the religious...

"What the verse does as chant is make things important without changing them." --Gerald Burns

We revel in the squalor of postwar Great Britain; the crudeness of the tactics of espionage in that era makes us more tinglingly aware of how far we have come in surveillance abilities now; and that paranoia echoes our present one in curious & not-always-ironic ways. Re-watching.

drop-breaker · go-sludge delver
bounce · two ducks airborne now
i hurt from not having · a harsh rebuke
in the silver air

Corman on Usher.