As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.

Business has been slow lately.

If Blank and his collaborators (cofilmmakers Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon, and Susan Kell) are ultimately done in by their arch uses of film rhetoric, Luc Moullet and Antonietta Pizzorno attempt to eliminate film rhetoric from their discourse entirely--which is of course impossible, although their calculated disdain for technique almost makes this idea begin to seem plausible.

M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.