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is a deliberate takeover from Chaplin (“Chorney Choplain,” as he
called him in Finnegans Wake ). And Chaplin, just as Chopin had
adapted the pianoforte to the style of the ballet, hit upon the
wondrous media mix of ballet and film in developing his
Pavlovalike alternation of ecstasy and waddle. He adopted the
classical steps of ballet to a movie mime that converged
exactly the right blend of the lyric and the ironic that is found
also in Prufrock and Ulysses . Artists in various fields are always
the first to discover how to enable one medium to use or to
release the power of another. In a simpler form, it is the
technique employed by Charles Boyer in his kind of French-
English blend of urbane, throaty delirium.
The printed book had encouraged artists to reduce all
forms of expression as much as possible to the single
descriptive and narrative plane of the printed word. The advent