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Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man – for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders – was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch

J.G. Ballard
Crash
Bulteau l’aiguille vers de nouveaux auteurs, lui prête Le Désir et la Poursuite du tout, l’histoire d’une passion débauchée idéalisée par l’écrivain anglais
BUCHET CHASTEL • Houellebecq: La biographie d'un phénomène (ESS DOC AUT) (French Edition)
(Curiously, one reason why Wilder was himself disappointed with the way this film turned out was that he originally wanted Armbruster Sr.'s longterm affair to have been with a male hotel bellhop, until studio executives dissuaded him.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

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