samrscribepost.4.19.11

This is primarily about the reading we did for this day (Tuesday April 19) up to page 380....

QUESTIONS RAISED

>> >> PAGES MR NEAL WANTS US TO LOOK AT
 * what happens when they go to the movies and the “Orson Wells bit?”
 * they go to the movies, meet Orson wells(becomes famous for cut scenes,etc.)
 * gives joe the idea to create a picture outside of the box/lines of the comic books
 * THINK BACK TO...the visual grammar lesson... and its outside-of-the-frame comics
 * this gives them the idea to break outside the 3X3 frame that comic books are in that time period
 * again, to note: chabon is very supportive of GENRE FICTION
 * he wants big-L Literature to be as recognized the same as sci-fi, etc
 * there’s artistry in all types of books, and it should all be equal
 * what's the deal with..... Carl Ebling: at the bar mitzvah?
 * he is made into the saboteur in the intercolary (sp?) chapter
 * he is ALSO a //waiter// at these bar mitzvahs--__[anti-semite working at jewish events]__
 * he sees a fuse that he thinks is a cigarette, but goes over to snuff it..but it's a bomb
 * the pipe **bomb** is in the __trident__
 * joe __saves__ the party
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: square; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the point is the //__anti-climacticness__// of their brawl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 21pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(real fights aren’t like they are in the comic books)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">joe and sammy: **FORESHADOWING**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 36pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">p 370: “at any rate, the circulation figures for the Kaavalier & Clay titles increast steadily until, by the abrupt termination of the partnership.”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">conflict btwn joes transformation into an ‘american’ and sammy’s possible transformation with bacon

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SPOILER ALERT: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">100ish pages later, we see the abrupt termination =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 48pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">page 352: = =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tracy bacon goes up to observation deck as citizen’s watch for airplanes **//__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> this is when tracy and sammy acknowledge that they like each other __//** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">adjs finding tone to describe how they feel towards each other <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> fire, sizzle, heat, burning, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d2b910; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">electric, steamy, <span style="background-color: #f668cc; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">passionate cigarette is described as a gemstone of heat, just like this moment is a gem for them = =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> also kind of like when a girl does the foot-lift in a movie kiss = =note the equality between homosexuality and heterosexuality <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> described __EXACTLY__ like a powerful, movie-moment kiss between a man and a woman note the equal detail of the homosexual and heterosexual romance when they kiss, they’res literally a thundercloud an opposites attract kind of a feel note: there is lightning or “<span style="background-color: #ba9d14; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">sparks in the air” because they’re in the electrical enviornement of the building, there is literal electricity between them in the form of sparks <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 48pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">page 380: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> what **//tone//** is chabon bringing about a thing to note: they do NOT have sex that we <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 36pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">see in this scene, but this is when they first have sex it’s in the <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">dark, and that represents the hiddenness of it all they’re in this ‘land of the future’ where this is possible, and he, in his mind, is in futuria, his future nyc __//“fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other.”//__ -more evidence of how they really love each other and the love scene is **as** real as //**any**// other love //__**(straight or gay)**__// =

AND. the next scribe is....Lili Welch