From: A ball of yarns
A friend of mine recently recommended the Polish writer Jan Potocki's bizarre, digressive masterpiece The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (find out just how digressive by checking out the table of contents here). I was unaware until today that this early-nineteenth-century work was resurrected in the 1960s as a black-and-white Polish-language film by Wojciech Has. The film might have been short-lived, according to Grady Hendrix in today's New York Sun, had Jerry Garcia of all people not "bought a print which he gave to the Pacific Film Archive on the condition that they would screen it for him whenever he asked." It's a fittingly odd episode in the book's long, strange trip to the present:
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