Monday, September 14, 2009

Pop Synesthesia


Wes Anderson is a furtive Nabokov reader. He must be. While there is no tangible evidence to support this, there is in my mind no doubt.
While reading speak memory, I could not turn off my minds eye of depicting nearly every seen into neat Royal Tennenbaum moments. I have the suspicion that i alone suffer from this affliction but take for example Nabokov's childhood, specifically his schooling ...and then watch this
When reading i could even here the music playing out in my mind. I wish that i could have experience this with relation to something other than a movie, but at least it was a good one.
Tell me if you can, that this scene from the flick does not conjure up a passage from Speak Memory on 149 (read first then view)
She would be ten in November, I had been ten in April. Attention was drawn to a jagged bit of violet mussel shell upon hich she had stepped with the bare sole of her narrow long-toed foot. No, I was not English. Her greenish eyes seemed flecked with the overflow of the freckles that covered her sharp featured face...(I am tempted to continue writing but i fear i wont stop until page 310).
In fact when i read any of his love depictions my mind would spin the reel of film complete with the Nico song and all. Is this just me? Is this just pop-synesthesia?

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