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Originally Posted by racehorse
oh!
that is a wonderful film, but it does not compare to the book at all. the book is a classic, i don't know why it seems so under rated, as i never hear about it anywhere. full of experimental bouncy prose. the author's last name is Quenault, i can't remember his first name...
wonderful book.
anyway... films...
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I tried to check out the book at my university's library, but the translated one has been missing for a long time. It sounds great. I just love word-play like in Nabokov or Carroll. I loved that little girl in Zazie, the actress Catherine Demongeot.
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There is a Hand to turn the time,
Though thy Glass today be run,
Till the Light hath brought the Towers low
Find the last poor Preterite one . . .
Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,
All through our crippl'd Zone,
With a face in ev'ry Mountainside
And a Soul in ev'ry stone
Now Everybody -
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