a few years back
We had a class a couple of years ago, remember?Slacker · 1990 — 第 13 / 22 章 · 3'41" · B2
The JFK Bookstore Conversation, Explained：snap up
In a bookshop, one man notices the other reading Rush to Judgment and launches into his own Kennedy theories: it was Jack Ruby, not Oswald, and he has the books to prove it. He names every title he can, then mentions the one he is still writing.
あらすじ
Two acquaintances meet among the bookshelves. One is flipping through Rush to Judgment; the other has spent years on Kennedy assassination theories and knows the literature by heart. He recommends title after title, insists it was Jack Ruby who shot Tippet, and finally pitches the book he is writing himself.
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このシーンの表現
snap up
grab something quickly
Recommending his favorite title, he urges the reader to snap it up before it is gone.
She snapped up the last copy before it sold out.
このシーンの他の表現
- flip through
leaf through casually
- testimony
a witness's formal statement
- triangulation
locating a point by angles
- you know
a spoken filler, you know
- gosh
a mild exclamation
このシーンのメモ一覧
75 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
be doing
- What have you been up to? - Not too much.spend time idly
I graduated a couple of years back. Just pretty much hanging out.Keeping up with runs together, with a soft p in up.
I've been, uh, keeping up with my J.F.K. assassination theories, you know.about that topic
You know, you're reading one of the great books on the subject.relative clause: The who-clause defines the witnesses as those never summoned.
of all the witnesses who were never called before the Warren Commission.leaf through casually
Caught by a keen fan, he says he was only flipping through to lower the stakes.
I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping through.Kind of weakens into kinda in casual speech.
I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping through.the one that has
Best Evidence. That's the one with all the head-snap stuff in it.moment by moment
And it's great. It's just got this like second by second account...The ed in talked flaps into a d and links to to.
Like, gosh, you know, they talked to Mrs. Erlene Roberts, you know...a mild exclamation — Mild surprise; safer than God but still casual.
Like, gosh, you know, they talked to Mrs. Erlene Roberts, you know...insist under oath
Oh, yeah. And she swears that she saw this, uh, Dallas patrol car...drive up and stop
pull up in front of Oswald's house...a secret signal
Yeah, yeah. It was the tip-off for Oswald, you know?be supposed to: Be supposed to marks what was planned or expected of him.
Yeah, he was supposed to go up the street up Beckly Avenue - he was in Oak Cliff-state it officially
Yeah, yeah. You know, the waitresses went on record in the Warren Report...going to — Everyday speech; avoid in formal writing.
Yeah. It's gonna be good though.a fresh method
It's gonna be this totally new approach.roughly like
I was thinking of calling it something like Profiles in Cowardice or something.every single day
And they were just hopped up on amphetamines day in and day out.passive voice: The passive shifts focus to the doctor visiting them, not who did the visiting.
At the White House they were visited all the time by this doctor...await something
but I think I'll just wait for your book to come out.「The JFK Bookstore Conversation」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a portrait of a certain kind of enthusiast, and it is funny because it is so recognisable. He cannot let a coincidence pass: seeing the book is enough to launch him into everything he knows. The details come thick and fast — Mrs. Aquilla Clemmons, Sam Holland, the "breakfast of infamy," Dr. Feel-Good — and the pleasure he takes in them is the whole performance. His listener is polite but declining, and the quiet comedy is that he does not notice. When he reveals that he is writing his own book, the earlier teaching becomes a pitch, down to the rejected title Profiles in Cowardice and the publisher's catchier suggestion, Conspiracy a-Go-Go. The film lets him be both absurd and completely sincere.
Theme
PhilosophyHe turns an assassination into a complete private worldview, complete with a book and a list of favourite titles.
SatireThe film gently mocks the type who cannot tell a coincidence from a conspiracy, without making him a villain.
このチャプターで学べること
- A polite hedge can end a lecture without confrontation.
- Conspiracy talk leans on names, dates and a confident tone.
- A pun can turn a killing into a punchline about breakfast.
- Recommending a book is often a way to recommend yourself.
発音のポイント
- keeping up with — Keeping up with runs together, with a soft p in up.
- kind of — Kind of weakens into kinda in casual speech.
- talked to — The ed in talked flaps into a d and links to to.
I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping through.The other man's honest admission that he is only skimming, which does nothing to stop the lecture.
You know, you're reading one of the great books on the subject.How the enthusiast opens: the book itself is an invitation to show off what he knows.
It wasn't Oswald that did it. Of course you know it was Jack Ruby.His confident revision of the official story, delivered as if it were common knowledge.
And they were just hopped up on amphetamines day in and day out.One of his wilder claims about the Kennedys, offered as part of the book he is writing.
このシーンについての質問
What does the enthusiast want to talk about?
He wants to talk about Kennedy assassination theories, and he seems to know every book written on the subject, along with the witnesses and details in them.
What does he claim about the Tippet shooting?
He says it was not Oswald but Jack Ruby who shot Tippet, and treats it as established fact rather than a theory.
What is the book he is writing?
He is working on his own book about the assassination. He wanted to call it Profiles in Cowardice, but his publisher prefers Conspiracy a-Go-Go.
Why does the other man leave?
He says he is supposed to be at a movie, which gives him a polite reason to end the conversation. He promises to look for the book when it comes out.
What does "flip through" mean?
It means to look through a book quickly without reading it closely. The man says he was only flipping through the book, not studying it.
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