Reader as Camera
George Steiner expresses with beautiful precision "At their finest, the criteria of orality and the cinematographic fuse perfectly" in his review of Christopher Logue's War Music [Times Literary Supplement 15 February 2002]. The directions emerge from the action.
[Achilles has just made his speech about withdrawing his forces.]That first "silence" could be a description of the reaction to the speech of Achilles. It comes to assume the force of an injunction to be quiet on set as the directions unfold.
Silence.
Reverse the shot.
Go close.
Hear Agamemnon […]
The deliciousness of the passage is underscored by the fact that what is being exchanged are shots albeit verbal.
And so for day 1456
08.12.2010
