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As John Darnielle said on Tumblr (more eloquently than I would have managed): Pickett’s performance here makes me think of the face-pulling contests / stand-offs in the early parts of Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke, which was unless I read the afterword wrong something Gombrowicz did for real: stand before an audience and affect faces. Which for about a minute-plus inspires all the normal modern-world reactions to the distant, incomprehensible past: can you believe this was a thing, how bored everyone must have been, etc. But stick with it. This is a remarkable performance. (Ferdyduke is a great book by the way)
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:16:09 +0000

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