Chris Carter/Thomas Pynchon

[matthew.percy at utoronto.ca]

Not to neglect the fact that utterly bizarre inversion of "life is like 
a box of chocolates" quote from _Forrest Gump, GOP_ was wickedly reminiscent
of Pynchon's humor.  The whole time I kept on thinking about Pynchon's 
deconstruction of/satires of Bing Crosby and John Wayne in _GR_...

"Know Your Chicken"

-MATT

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Christopher Tassava wrote:

> It's probably just paranoia, seeing connections between my favorite 
> things, but _The X-Files_ is an awfully lot like _GR_, sometimes, as 
> Richard suggested today.  I mean, Chris Carter seems to have a 
> Pynchonesque sensibility, as that Cancer Man episode last week displayed: 
> he was trying to come up with some reasonably believable conspiracies 
> (tying Cancer Man into the conspiracy to kill JFK made him a lone gunman 
> but not a lone actor, importantly) but then just going meta towards the 
> middle of the show by having Cancer Man rig everything.  Carter's mocking 
> the possiblity of conspiracy while supporting it, just like Pynchon.  
> Carter's read his _GR_, at least...
> -- 
> Xferen
> 
> "Important to keep going, obliterate the sure thing	Don DeLillo,
> and come upon a moment of stealthy blessing."		_Mao II_
>