Vineland's verisimilitude

[jester]

At 07:42 PM 07/03/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>>Much more interesting (for me, given my Gen-X subject
>position) is the 80's teenspeak TRP conjures with the voice of Prairie,
>which I find exaggerated but generally accurate (I mean, rilly). And then
>there's Takeshi's voice, which exactly replicates the speech patterns of
>dubbed Japanese monster-movies -- his voice doesn't sound like a botched
>attempt at verisimilitude, more like an entirely mediated Western
>experience of Japanese speech (and I would argue that the 'mediatedness' of
>TRP's polylogue novel is the source of much of its comedy).


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JJ "Jester"