JM (on former posting about a survey of dackelhood): Not only was I recently visited by Alexander McCall Smith's "The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs" (2003) but I happened to watch a CSI Los Angeles episode about sausages and the "hot dachshunds" sold in New York's Yankee Stadium. It seems that one only needs to pay attention to criss-crossing events to get the impression that we're surrounded by coincidences I just returned from the movies where I attended a magic Scorsese production, "Hugo," with its two courting (quite furry and superfluous) dackels, amidst a lot of conjuring, automata, fantastic patternings and sheer enchantment.

There was no reference to Vsevold I Pudovkin's "Chess Fever," nor any chess-game in the movie but, in its skillful racy narrative about George Meliés and the Lumière Brothers, it inserts short scenes and images from other classic silent movies, including a long series of shots from one VN chose for the encounter between Luzhin and Valentinov with the fateful image from Harvey Loyd's "Safety Last" (cf. VN's "The Defense") - probably chosen as a preview of Sasha's suicide.