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[proximoception]

Favorite titles:

1. Blood Wedding

Can't possibly be as good in Spanish. Gets extra power from bloodletting, from wedding's homophony with wetting (in Midwesternese anyway), even from the dwed in the middle--Elmer Fudd for dread. The bl-- is like a spurt too, an eruption from nowhere, the --d its landing on your shirt. Wedding is the secondary dribble, inging into the dirt. Stark vomitous wet ruination death title. Love it.

2. He Knew He Was Right
3. Everyone Says I Love You
4. Bitter Moon
5. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Because how could he possibly do it justice and he does.

There were others, what were they.

Oh:

6. Bleak House

Because of what it comes to mean.

7. Love and Death
8. How to Live. What to Do.

Forgetting lots of great Stevens ones doubtless.

9. She Done Him Wrong

I like that there's just one way to say it, shaking your head, firmly, no good will it come of it-ly. Smackin' that D off your palate.

10. Bad Day at Black Rock

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[ex-commonpl.livejournal.com]

I like War and Peace. Pretty much says it all. The Russian Voina i mir is even better, if, since I believe (though I know no Russian) that mir carries the sense of not only peace, but of something like community as well.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

The best translation might be "fellowship" but the hobbits killed that word.

War and Peace is too...familiar to me to be judged. Feels like a name to me, like Hamlet. Hard to focus on as a doorway to a great place.

Also Allen trumps it neatly. That's why that title's great, not because he was the first to think of it, but the implication that there is such a contest. "Oh yeah, war and peace? That's okay I guess, but mine encompasses and reduces MORE of everything!" What would be next, "This and That"? Somehow made funnier by how specific the movie gets in its Russ-tome-spearing. We're not getting love and death straight, we're getting a dialect of them.