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In response to
"I've watched that episode so many times & I still had to watch McGoohan's interview to understand it. -- nm"
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Remlik
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I kind of want to bend my understanding of it so that it fits within the "secret agent man" zoetrope. -- nm
Posted by
Beryllium (aka grayman)
Nov 17 '09, 19:57
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zoetrope is totally the wrong word, but it's hilarious to use it in this context. :)
zoetrope [ˈzəʊɪˌtrəʊp]
n
(Group Games / Games, other than specified) a cylinder-shaped toy with a sequence of pictures on its inner surface which, when viewed through the vertical slits spaced regularly around it while the toy is rotated, produce an illusion of animation
... perhaps the show is just an illusion of what being a secret agent did to his mind, and his sense of honor. As in, the only way he could preserve both, was to construct a psychological fantasy that allowed him to contain himself.
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