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...essentially a fellow traveller with Bach. Because Indjic failed to convey this essence his performances of the two sonates were generally uninteresting and at times annoying. Nor did Indjic seem to be aware of the overall structure of the works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them by turns with violence and lyricism. Indjic's inflections seemed motivated by custom, or perhaps were produced by rote, rather than by any internalized understanding of the metaphor. The superficiality became most evident in the absolute lack of communication...
...plot is hallucinogenic, the characters are monstrous, and the style is Beverly Hills baroque. Yet Condon's grotesque farce is often merely the truth as seen in the wobbles of an amusement-park mirror. The book, which drifted past most critics and customers recently without creating much of a stir, is not on a par with the mad master's Manchurian Candidate. But in its own way, it deserves a small place on the shelf that includes Nathanael West...
What Elvira Madigan is about is not the wasting away of bodies, but the wasting away of love--even if (or because) that love is an ideal love. Who does not dream of it--fishing in the mirror fjords with a beautiful woman in a long white lace dress, the trout flopping in her lap, and you with your hat slouched over your eyes? Who does not dream...
...disconnected house, on a disconnected morning, Anastasia comes suddenly upon a little girl (Karen Ascheim), the daughter of a married lover. There is a chilling scene. Two witches in a sun-lit room, mirror images through time. Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in a red frock. What does she feel before that inscrutable child? Envy for times past, fear for the child's future indifference before accusation, shame? Nothing so simple. In that transcendent silence, white spheres of guilt and innocence flash and tumble, collide and fuse. Souls changes places, lose and gain whole years...
...others plunged into a kind of mental narcissism. A Cliffie described her withdrawal this way: "I stared at myself in a mirror and saw my face reflected in my pupils. In that inner face was another face reflected, and in that another, and in that another...." A student who characterized himself as very verbal noticed he was becoming less and less talkative. Another student spent hours writing in his journal...