The Persistance of Images......over 60 years ago, I sat in the balcony....alone.....at the Lyric Theater......indulging in the latest William Castle Perceptovision movie....as Television grew to compete with Films that were shown, for revenue, at local theaters........Ever new gimmicks arose to attract audiences to sit in movie houses...Castle offered Life Insurance policies for kids that might die during his films......then theater seats, wired for mild electrical shock......red/blue lensed glasses for 3-D thrills....."magic" coins....."punishment" polls....even Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, in drag............Noticing this bamboo root in the leaf bag this morning, I remembered 'the tingler'.....a crawling spinal cord, with nerve extensions, that resembled a giant crustacean centipede......for a few seconds, I was 14 again, sitting in the balcony, watching Vincent Price being stalked, then strangled by a renegade spinal cord...... There is an oblique correlation with The Manchurian Candidate here, I think.......
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