A digression from motels noirs, but in line with noir transient
dwellers: "Hotel du Nord", the Marcel Carné 1938 classic movie,
complete with doomed lovers, cynical pimps and whores.
jpj
On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Steve Novak wrote:
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> Is this available anywhere...sounds very interesting especially from
> Ballard...?
> montois
>
> On 7/15/09 6:48 AM, "Sean Shapiro" <ssshapir@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Maybe it's noir, maybe it's not. What about JG Ballard's short
> story 'Motel
> > Architecture', described by Jason Cowley in The Observer:
> >
> > "In 'Motel Architecture' a man called Pangborn retreats from the
> world,
> > spending his days alone in a solarium, amusing himself by
> endlessly replaying
> > the shower sequence from Psycho on a bank of television screens
> (this story
> > was written in 1978, before the age of video and digitised
> surveillance
> > cameras). One day, he discovers there is an intruder in the
> solarium, eating
> > his food and sharing his private space. Sometimes he catches
> glimpses of the
> > intruder, his spectral presence and shifting shadows. Then a
> cleaning woman is
> > found murdered in the solarium, lying in the 'familiar postures he
> had
> > analysed in a thousand blow-ups'. Pangborn is terrified until, in
> a moment of
> > blazing self-revelation, he realises he has always been alone in
> the solarium,
> > that he is his own intruder, a stranger to himself and perhaps now
> a murderer,
> > too."
> >
> > Sean Shapiro
> >
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