Field Notes

In its silly way, this is a movie about female sexual power.

"Between the experiential cunning of the animal and the more self-disciplined and attentive cunning of the man."

"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."

A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.

"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."

How to survive not war, but peace, with one’s humanity intact?

"A degenerate 'middlebrow' horror, mass-produced for profit."

Comical yet not funny, equal-opportunity in its portrayal of human folly, artificial in the extreme.

From 1944–1953, Mickey was a Mouse Without Qualities.

Single-night movies aren’t snapshots, they’re moonlit summoning rituals.

Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!

Beatnik gives us anti-highbrow Beat-ness without the exaltation.

Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.

How best to convey the pathos and tragedy of the Ex-Ex-Human Condition?

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