intextuality

[Ted Samsel]

Xfr sez:
> 
> Re: "Pass the talcum to me Malcolm" (64.19)," Don Larsson write:
> 
> "It raises an interesting question about intertextuality.
> When "real" characters encounter fictional characters in books, what is
> the result?  There was a lot of talk about this when Doctorow wrote
> RAGTIME but now we're stuck with Forrest Gump!"
> 
> For a much better take on this whole thing, see Don DeLillo's masterpiece 
> novella (and alleged component of his next book), _Pafko at the Wall_, 
> which features J. Edgar Hoover watching Jackie Gleason puke on Frank 
> Sinatra while watching the third game of the 1950-something NL playoff 
> between the Dodgers and Giants.  It's well worth finding the 10/92 
> Harper's to read it.

Lest we forget Larry McMurtry's TEXASVILLE, when the now Knarrenstadt of
Archer City has a football homecoming that deteriorates into a brawl
which includes a jack-knifed egg-hauler and the subsequent egg-fight.
Willie Nelson and his entourage pass through on the "morning after"
and opines that "there looks like there's been a rat-fuck of a party
here."

Forrest Gump, hell!


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