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| Gary McGath to Evelyn C. Leeper |
| Re: MT VOID, 06/20/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 51 |
| 23 Jun 25 11:43:56 |
From: garym@mcgath.com On 6/22/25 8:59 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote: > TOPIC: METROPOLIS (film comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) > > Our movie-and-book group watched METROPOLIS (1927) this month, and > read (or tried to read) METROPOLIS by Thea Von Harbou. Whether it > was Von Harbou's writing, or the translation, I found the book > over-flowery and then some (and I was not the only one). I just glanced at the first few sentences of the original German. It's ultraviolet prose. https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/harbou/metropol/chap001.html -- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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