Stan K-B [to "...a person mentioned to me
Hugh G. Well's short-story "The Door in the Wall..."] To "a certain class of
moviegoers, Green Door uniquely points to the classic 1972 film, Behind the
Green Door! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ My friends tell me it has
artistic merits beyond your typical skinflick. Not sure of the idiom’s origin,
but it seems to refer to the exotic antics people perform in private, antics you
wouldn’t expect from their respectable exterior curtains or doors."
JM: Always a tease? It seems that the reference to
a "green door" from Well's story has plunged me into a Browningesque* rebound
from "owl and bat" to "cowl and that"...
However, Stan, porn movies are a poor substitute for
imagination. So here is a quote, to add a Nabokovian touch:
"Imagination - the muscle of the soul..."
(Cf. RLSK's Clare
Bishop). Of course, right now, we're no
longer referring to souls, but to inventive carnalities. On
second thoughts, Nabokov is right: imagination belongs to the realm of the
soul, only and I'll retain my own "green door."
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*
- Following VN's play in "Ada" (part three,ch.3)
461.15“Your hat,” he said, “is positively lautrémontesque—I mean,
lautrecaquesque—no, I can’t form the adjective.”