Old Men Justifying Shit

By hugh | Published: April 1, 2009

Watching Ben Kingsley muddle his way through Elegy, I thought of The Dean’s December by Saul Bellow. They were both long falling moments when a couple of my heroes got really ugly. They stumble out at the end a ready-made baptism. (Both are fictions.)

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  1. Leonora
    Posted April 3, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

    Kingsley did lack a certain something that you would expect in a Professor of Desire.

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