'That Coppola saw further than others into the future of film is argued persuasively by Wasson, although we could do without the imperial purple with which he sometimes adorns his prose. “What would stop Zoetrope,” he writes, “from reconstituting America or even world consciousness into a single living, loving adventure the size of nations and the span of lifetimes . . .?” Well. Reality? The boundaries of the possible?'

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