Bully Pulpit

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Visual Quote?

a scene from Blow Up, 1966
They pass a troupe of white faced mimes in a park playing slow-motion
tennis without a ball, and they stop for a while, sipping hot tea from
a thermos, to watch the intensely contested game.
--Salaman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

As porcupines possess great visual memory, the prickliest would like to point out this equally applies to the daily scene of Hare Krishna playing tennis at Willard Park on a sunny day.

Another possibility from the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - although this one is quite a bit less silent, the ball is equally invisible:




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