[lbo-talk] a provocatory profile

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 26 10:33:30 PST 2006


That guy is a real piece of work. There are about 7 or 8 eminently quotable statements from him in there. Someone should make one of those random quotes generators, at a web page, dishing out bits of his wisdom. The "pussy/book" thing -- that was deep! -B.

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Doug Henwood wrote:

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But his most notorious line was his attempt to invoke the modern aristocrat's great struggle between his dueling low and high impulses (or what Mr. Franchetti later called the "Dionysian and Apollonian forces.") "I'm reading a book and I'm thinking about a pussy, but I find when I get the pussy, I'm thinking about the book," he said.
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> Mr. Franchetti wasn't surprised by some of the
reactions to his film debut-"I knew that it was going to be scandalous!"-and waved any outrage off as little more than bourgeois conventionalism. "I mean, it's a Nietzschean theory-it's nothing that I've invented," he said of his pussy/book formulation.



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