"Let Me Show You the Life of the Mind"

[dukealien]

Thanks (again) Duke for taking this one on.  I was beginning to despair of getting any comments at all.  I was in a peculiar mood, a sort of "rage against the machine" mood when I wrote it.  But I wanted to let it all hang out, as they used to say.  

You've given me some good insight into what I can/cannot get away with.  I'd be curious what you had to look up, if you've got the time and patience to tell me.

The individual notes on specific lines are invaluable.

TqB

I had to look up Barton Fink and Jean de Florette, and checked up on Alphaville while I was at it to make sure it was what the title nudged from memory.  (While Googling B.F. I ran across the same team's Miller's Crossing, which has always enraged me for its unacknowledged theft of 90% of its content from Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key... despite the tommygun scene, one of my all-time favorites.)