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definitely. jack kerouac, at least through his early stuff—On the Road, Dharma Bums—, always challenges my energy and excitement for life. also, several political books have had a profound impact on my faith and my politics (i’m a politics kind of guy), such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by dee brown and Against Empire by michael parenti. i’m sure there are more, but i can’t think of them off the top of my head.

i thought it was wagner? anyway, doesn’t it have something to do with the ‘salvation through self-destruction’ theme. how about ‘apocolypse now’, the beach scene? zarathustra is thick and took me awhile too to get through it; it was easiest for me to read it on sunday- something about the contrast between church, sermons, hymns, prayers, et al and nietzsche proclaiming ‘god is dead’. :D

Nope, Also Sprach Zarathustra was written by Richard Strauss. :)

(oops, this is kristinmarie—I forgot to log out after grant was done.)

sorry, got confused. :D the beach scene in apocolypse now is to wagner’s ‘ride of the valkyries’. still what about the apocolypse connection. i realize coppola is perhaps not on the same level as kubrick; thoughts?

A Clockwork Orange was originally published without the last chapter in the United States. Nowadays the books you buy normally include it along with a bitter introduction by Burgess on how this isn’t his best work, and how his other books get ignored, and how much he hates the film. Since the book existed in both forms, perhaps Kubrick was justifyed in choosing the ending he preferred.

Dan-
Of course, he may be justified through preference, by all means create what you want to create. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t think of filming a version of Austen’s works wherein the final chapters of moralizing and happiness are left out, and the scenes are macabre in some way – and then call them by their original titles. They’d be named something else. You know – “Gorey takes on Prejudice” (edward gorey) or something instead of Pride and Predjudice….

After reading your comment about Burgess’ intro – I thought to myself, “who cares about artist intent anyhow…” Well, now, I don’t really believe that but in many cases the work an artist most likes or believes embodies his creative power is not necessarily the one which is called “best”.