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Guidelines adopted by director Chuck Jones in making Warner Bros.’ Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoons, from Jones’ 1999 memoir Chuck Amuck:
- The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “beep-beep!”
- No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.
- The Coyote could stop anytime — if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” — George Santayana)
- No dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!”
- The Road Runner must stay on the road — otherwise, logically, he would not be called road runner.
- All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters — the southwest American desert.
- All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.
- Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.
- The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.
Two excellent poems by Idra Novey The Visitor and Of the Divine as Absence and Single Letter.
A poem on Alexander Borodin by Donald Revell : Borodin
Some lines from Reginald Dwayne Betts:
my body swaying back and forth, my head
a pendulum that’s rocked by the wild riffs
of the dudes I’m riding with: them white folks know
you ain’t god body, what you commune wine
and bread? Where you from son? Red lines?
A poem probably inspired by Storage Wars: As Is by Nicholas Friedman
The Soul by Katie Ford
The Girls of Winter by Jim Harrison
Lines from Richie Hofmann:
On the old gate at one end a clock
told an ancient form of time. I sulked along behind
How very intimate the bodily sense is can be seen by performing a little experiment in your imagination. Think first of swallowing the saliva in your mouth, or do so. Then imagine expectorating it into a tumbler and drinking it! What seemed natural and ‘mine’ suddenly becomes disgusting and alien. Or picture yourself sucking blood from a prick in your finger; then imagine sucking blood from a bandage around your finger! What I perceive as belonging intimately to my body is warm and welcome; what I perceive as separate from my body becomes, in the twinkling of an eye, cold and foreign.
– Gordon W. Allpor
THE DARJEELING LIMITED:
“I love you…
BUT I’M GONNA MACE YOU IN THE FACE.”
FANTASTIC MR. FOX:
“I love you…
BUT I SHOULDN’T HAVE MARRIED YOU.”
MOONRISE KINGDOM:
“I love you…
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.”
