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Steve Dunlap said:
Yes.
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Where did he find those three cuties? 🙂
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One of them his his own daughter (who would be highly tempting possession bait; what could possibly be more spiteful?), the other two I'm not sure about (friends of hers?).
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This attempt at quick fame and fortune is very ill-considered, to say the least. (What if Blatty wasn't full of it, after all?) The man is either a fool, or he has a pre-arranged agreement with a certain somebody. (I'm betting on the former.)
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Careful what you want (as they say), and in this case especially what you go around openly billing yourself as publicly.
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I don't know about an interview, but I'll say this: I was twelve when I saw it in January of '74 (I'm in Texas, where — interestingly — no one seemed to have a problem with it like they did in so many other places), and I'd never seen anything as shocking and horrifying on a movie screen as The Exorcist. (Jaws ranks second, Alien third). Nor since then. Same went for everyone else sitting around us (I was there with my mom and brother). Just watching it was like living through a nightmare.        Â
It could have telepathically plucked it from the back of Karras’s mind, and made sarcastic reference to it in that context to make him feel guilty about it/remind him that he was a sinner. It could definitely read minds (so well that you didn’t have to actually be thinking something in particular at a given time for it to be able to glean it from your head).
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It could ‘google’ human minds telepathically (so to speak), placing a lot of knowledge at it’s fingertips; in Karras’s presence it ‘knew’ classical Greek in addition to Latin, for example. The German it plucked from Karl’s mind, and so on. It could create the illusion of omniscience in this manner, but it wasn’t my impression while reading the book that it really possessed it.Â
Petronius said:
Perhaps this is blasphemous
Against Yorkshire terriers or Pazuzu? (Maybe tonight you’ll hear Yorkies in your attic.
)Steve Dunlap said:
Absolutely!!! When I got a little older after my first viewing of The Exorcist , I developed a crush on Linda Blair.
Steve Dunlap said:Â
As I got a little older, I too had a crush on Linda Blair…
Hmmmmmm…..two personalities inhabiting one individual.
Nice to see the two of you getting along, but don’t you think you should each have your own separate account? (Not that I'm any expert on such phenomenon.)Â
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I dreamed I was a member of a website where people were always placing back slashes ahead of quotation marks and semi-quotation marks.Â
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Not very Exorcist (unless they were possessed by a back slash demon), but still, thank God it was only a nightmare. Â Â
I can't step into a hot bath by the light of the ceiling heater at night without feeling like there's going to be a rotting corpse lying in the tub ready to lunge up at me and grab me as soon as I pull the shower curtain back to get in. I loved the Family Guy take on The Shining:
I was thinking that it might’ve been a wish-fulfillment dream: Karras being ordered by a higher authority (via an intermediary who was a psychiatrist himself, no less) to end his personal involvement in the MacNeil matter, so that he could walk away from the whole thing in good conscience; the situation no longer being in his hands. Â Â
