subversive TV

[George Haberberger]

At 03:46 PM 7/12/96 +0100, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>George Haberberger writes:
>
>> At 05:41 PM 7/9/96 +0100, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>> >I've been feeling kind of uneasy over the fact that TV does seem to be
>> >the common ground for a great many folks on this list -- even, dare I
>> >say it, more so than the works of TRP!  (it always seems to spark the
>> >longest, most heated debates).  Or am I just being paranoid?
>> >Andrew doesn't seem to think so.
>
>Oh no I didn't. I replied to it. But while we are here let's see what
>we have to say.

very sorry, was getting tangled up in the thread. And I didn't mean to make
the assumption that folks outside of the US would be as addicted to the the
TV as my fellow 'merkins (you're form teh UK, correct?) 

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>> And of course, TRP uses TV in 3 of his 4 novels, amost as much as he
>> uses the other American archetype, the automobile.
>
>The automobile? Actually, if I was asked to characterise the dominant
>mode of presentation in V, V2 and V3 I'd probably say mythic/iconic,
>cinematic and televisual (as in soap operatic) respectively. Don't
>know where those autos fit in. A-and Lot 49 gets left out of the
>picture because, well, it just does.

I was thinking of how Profane compares Rachel to her MG, during their
initial meetings, the abundance of automobile metaphors in VL (Cato and
Blood, Brock's last ride, DL's fantastic camaro). Little bits in GR (the
velvet lined case of rotors for very make of car available), and almost none
in COL49.

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>Andrew Dinn
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George, proud daddy of Allison Marie, 6# 14z, 20 inches, 7/13/96, and just
about to head back the hospital