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Valse Triste is frankly and gracefully auto biographical of Conners
Kansas boyhood, here the period of the 1940s of his source materials
parallels his own life experiences. A line of dark, wet cars files
across a flooded road; a man and a boy ceremoniously burn leaves;
a businessman at his desk turns to look over his shoulder to the
photo of a locomotive behind him: a medium shot of an engineer
in the cab of his locomotive: a shard of rock shears from a quarry
wall and plunges into the water ... |
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