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Jeeze, I bought a brand new copy of The Roman Ritual for US $499 a month or two ago. Look how much this copy is going for, and it isn’t even in mint condition!
Really? That’s so kind of you. 🙂
I have already send two CH-ers copies, along with my cover art. 😛 But my DVD drive is screwed at the moment so I can’t do anything for a week or two ’till I buy a new one.
Jeeze, I bought a brand new copy of The Roman Ritual for US $499 a month or two ago. Look how much this copy is going for, and it isn’t even in mint condition!
Even $499 seems way too much to me lol. 😐
OK, screencaps are on my blog. Sorry I screwed up the order 😛 . Please, Captain and Ryan, tell me when you’ve saved them so I can take them off… they take up more room than I thought 🙂
Saved them. Cheers!
By the way, can anyone provide me with that image of Paul Schrader and Blatty standing next to each other at the Dominion premiere?
Haven’t seen that one. Sounds interesting though. Justin, is there any way you could email the E! Curse to me instead of having it delivered by real mail?
I may be able to upload it in smaller parts, because at the moment it is 3gig.
Ryan have you checked the news archive? I’m pretty sure that pic was posted somewhere in the news.
Moreover, anyone here who hasn’t read “Twinkle, Twinkle, “Killer” Kane”, the reworked novel of “The Ninth Configuration” and the subsequent film adaptation of the latter title, go out and purchase the Region 1 US copy DVD, watch the film, then listen to the entire audio commentary with Blatty and Mark Kermode. Then you will understand why me and others are so obsessed with this film. It touches you, and you never forget it. It also helps that Cutshaw is in direct connection with the astronaut from The Exorcist.
http://darkplanet.basespace.net/nonfict/Blatty.html
It’s always seemed to me that The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, and Legion formed a sort of “unofficial” trilogy — with The Ninth Configuration serving as a thematic bridge between the more overt horrors in The Exorcist and the intensely introverted struggles of Kinderman in Legion. Do you view the three novels as a trilogy? If so, why? And if not, why?
Yes, they form — at least in my mind — a trilogy. Taken together, they are all about the eternal questions that nag at Woody Allen: why are we here? what are we supposed to be doing? why do we die? is there a God? The Exorcist approached this last question, which is the heart of all the others, by seeking to confirm the existence of “demons” and the power of religious faith to deal with them. The Ninth Configuration approached the problem via what I call “the mystery of goodness”: if we are reducible to matter without spirit, to soulless atomic structures, then we ought to be always rushing blindly and irresistibly to sereve our own selfish ends. Yet how is it that there is love in this world — love as a God might love — and that a man will give his life for another. The astronaut Cutshaw’s search for irrefutable proof of such pure self-sacrifice forms the underlying plot. But then in Legion, Ivan Karamazov’s greatest barrier to religious faith — the suffering of the innocent: the “problem of evil” — is met head-on by Lt. Kinderman.
It’s one of those movies/books that I just _know_ I’m going to love. I look forward to finding out I’m right 😉
Blatty & Schrader is posted here, under Rare Images > Dominion
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