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To: Ibexx who wrote (39408)	3/9/2002 12:05:46 PM
From: EightyEight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Jeez, how can we trust a guy who can not even navigate. Should be North by Northeast and not N x NW. <g>

To: Ibexx who wrote (39408)	3/9/2002 12:12:14 PM
From: turnmore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

We may plod from time to time but the direction is north by northwest. Is this a chartist's dream or a reference to Hitchcock's classic film? The title of the film is an anomaly and a clue to the absurd, confused plot in which no one is what he/she appears to be - there is no sharply delineated N by NW on a compass - it is an improbable direction. Apparently, it refers in part to the directionless, surrealistic search of the befuddled hero/common man around the country for a fictional character. [In Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (Act II, Scene II), Hamlet is quoted as saying: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."] The archetypal hero only finds a resolution to his disorientation and troubles by traveling from New York to Chicago by train and then flying north by Northwest (Airlines) to South Dakota and Mount Rushmore, a northwesterly trajectory. [At various stages of the script, the original working titles were Breathless, In a Northwesterly Direction, and The Man on Lincoln's Nose.]