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Tag: Elegy

Old Men Justifying Shit

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.)

Author hughPosted on April 1, 2009Categories Books, MoviesTags Elegy, The Dean's December1 Comment on Old Men Justifying Shit

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