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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Where to get Amory's Loon trilogy
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:28:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:28:51 1985
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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The first book was made into a male porno flick with all the sex taken
out (paradoxical, isn't it?) around 1970 in (would you believe?) Utah.
In fact, the film bears the seal of approval of the Utah state censor!

The film is so bad it's hilarious, one of the funniest I've ever seen.
There are lengthy & earnest discussions on the banks of a river right
out of a Coors beer ad about the symbolism of arrows & arrowheads, with
the connotations thudding to the ground like a herd of buffalo on the
hoof.  Orgasm is visually euphemized into dreamlike segments of freefall
through pastel-colored space with suitable muzak as an accompaniment.

The climactic scene takes place in a cave where the two protagonists
have gone to obtain metaphysical advice about their relationship from
its resident medicine man, who bears a striking resemblance to Harvey
Milk in a war bonnet (I noted this out loud--in the Castro Theater a
few months after Milk's assassination--& immediately got a few score
of very dirty looks from other audience members).  At the height of
his invocation of whatever, the sage raises his arms to heaven and
in a measured & portentious voice intones:

	Nam, myoho, renge, kyo
	Nam, myoho, renge, kyo......

[For you yahoos, it's a Japanese buddhist chant much favored by Soka
 Gakkai, a neofascist movement in postwar Japan that recruited heavily
 in North America in the 1970s among exjunkies & hippie burnouts.]

At this, the audience shrieked in disbelief & exploded in laughter.

Great fun, but not like the book.


						Kawabunga!
						Ron Rizzo