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Brazil director Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's junkie roman à clef is declared "a pointless mess" (Leah Rozen, People ). Besides the lack of a plot, critics say, there's a senselessly spinning camera meant to depict drug trips in scenes reminiscent of Andy Warhol's very worst movies.
Conversely, who remembers the bass clef lines and spaces (with, respectively, the insipid “ G reat B ig D ogs F ight A nimals” and “ A ll C ars E at G as” )? The treble clef lines are only a bit more memorable (“ E very G ood B oy D oes F ine” or “ E very G rizzly B ear D igs F igs” ); its spaces' notes, at least, crisply spell face . Who knows how many musical aspirations have been dashed against the bass clef, for want of adequate mnemonics?
A letter I collected from the poste restante contained a dossier about a précis of a roman à clef she had written, showing she was au fait with my manoeuvres in Iran which, if published, would ruin me.