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Joelle's last walk to Notkin's party

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the absolute end of her life and beauty running in a kind of stuttered old hand-held 16mm before her eyes, projected against the white screen on her side, for once, from Uncle Bud and twirling to Orin and Jim and YYY

Context

The life-flashing-before-the-eyes cliché re-shot on period equipment: her past runs as hand-held 16mm, and the veil becomes a screen "on her side, for once" — the woman the lens always pointed at finally gets to be the audience. Film grammar as the syntax of her interior life; the projector booth is inside the veil.

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