Glad my little photo timed so well with your readings, Bob.

Thanks for the comment and thanks to all who looked and commented.

Cheers,
frank

--- Original Message ---

From: Bob W <[email protected]>
Sent: January 1, 2013 1/1/13
To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PESO - Snow on Lake Shore Boulevard

> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of frank theriault
> 
> I was walking late Sunday evening, during a lovely snowfall:
> 
> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/12/snow-on-lake-shore-
> boulevard.html
> 

I'm reading La Bete Humaine by Zola at the moment, before my film class
starts in a couple of weeks time and we do Renoir's 1938 film version with
Jean Gabin. There's a great chapter in which the train driven by Jacques
Lantier, the psychopathic anti-hero played by Gabin, has to make its way to
Paris through a tremendous snow-storm. 

Well, maybe your tram isn't the monster in the book, and maybe your
snowstorm isn't the horrific tempest that Zola drew, but the picture is
atmospheric for all that, and was perfectly timed for my reading! Very
enjoyable.

<http://www.criterion.com/films/773-la-bete-humaine>

The novel, incidentally, is fantastic - well worth reading. A precursor of
all the hard-bitten pulp fiction and noir from Hemingway to Cain and beyond,
with the best femme fatale since Eve had one of her bright ideas in the
garden of Eden.

B


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