Full Body Massage

I recently discovered that somebody uploaded to YouTube the movie "Full Body Massage" (1995) starring Mimi Rogers and Bryan Brown. It's one of my favorties that haven't seemed to make it across the digital/Internet divide. At least I have found it harder to come by. I'll get down a couple of quotes from it.

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"There is but one temple in the universe and that is the human body. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on it."

-- Thomas Carlyle, 1840


"The angels keep their ancient places,
Turn but a stone and start a wing!
'Tis ye 'tis your estranged faces
That miss the many splendoured thing."

-- Francis Thompson, "The Kingdom of God"

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James Ellroy

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INTERVIEWER

You have said you dislike profanity, but you use it a lot.


ELLROY

I learned it from my father. He was raucous, profane, and freewheeling. I say fuck routinely—my generation is the first generation to say the word routinely, across gender lines. I love slang. I love hipster patois, racial invective, alliteration, argot of all kinds.

-- James Ellroy at The Paris Review (Fall 2009)

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