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Readers, writers, artists, thinkers, dreamers, seekers, hecklers, hellraisers, the shy, the forgotten, the unloved, the exuberant, the joyous living, and the restless dead. The truth is, I want everyone to read my new book (of course I do). It contains such astounding revelations that, having read it, you will be changed forever. (Not exactly a guarantee, of course, just an educated guess.)
Everything and everybody (almost).
Wild Strawberries, L'Avventura, Taxi Driver, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Black Narcissus, Sweet Smell of Success, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, American Psycho, The Big Knife, Barton Fink, On The Waterfront, La Notte, Naked Lunch, Psycho-Vertigo-The Birds-Rear Window, The Fencing Master, Abre Los Ojos, Lost in Translation, Homicide, House of Games, Reconstruction, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, L'Humanite, Woman in the Dunes, The Entertainer, Peeping Tom, Tokyo Story, Late Spring, Chinatown, Solaris (the original), Apu Trilogy, Betrayal, Double Indemnity, The Player, Ikiru, Carnal Knowledge, Olivier's Hamlet, Polanski's Macbeth, Five Easy Pieces, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man, Fireworks, Casablanca, Godard (to 1970), Umberto D, Bicycle Thief, etc.
No. No. No. OK, sometimes. (The Office--Brit version.)
Hamlet, Seize the Day, As I Lay Dying, Magic Mountain, Leaves of Grass, Lost Illusions, Scum, London Fields, Miss Lonelyhearts, Ragtime, Crying of Lot 49, Lolita, Pale Fire, Pat Hobby Stories, Bleak House, The Heart of the Matter, Enderby, Death of a Salesman, Duino Elegies, Jane Austen, Moravia, Kobo Abe, Murakami, Beckett, Mamet, everything Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche, Houellebecq, Stoppard, Henry James...too many to name, too much great work to honor.
You are. All of you. Anyone who can keep going in spite of the madness. (Now please buy my book, it's available everywhere online and off. And do hurry, the world might end soon.)www.leonardosshadow.com