grgr (34): pinball wizzard?!

[Thomas Lundvall]

Not to mention the bouncing ball in the sing-along number "Immanuel Kant was 
a real piss ant..." in the Monthy Python live at Hollywood Bowl film. 
Imagine what they would do with bouncing balls...

Thomas


>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>To: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: grgr (34): pinball wizzard?!
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Howdy
>
>This is an old movie convention.  If an audience was to be invited to
>sing along with the character on screen the lyric would be subtitled
>and a little dot (the "bouncing ball") would hop from syllable to
>syllable in time with the music.  I remember it was used in old Max
>Fleischer cartoons dating from the 1930's, when sound in film was still
>a novelty and movie palaces still competed with live burlesque and
>vaudeville.
>
>Mark
>
>P.S. Check out all the lewd old Betty Boop cartoons you can put your
>sweaty hands on!!
>
>--- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >                       "follow the bouncing ball:" (760)
> >
> > does this, also refering back to 583, somehow suggest that the
> > pinball machine
> > is a, well, "epistemological model" for the novel?! & if so: can this
> > be
> > observed as a pop-cultural meta-framing of the text? how is gr's
> > pinball machine
> > related to the video-games in vineland?
> >
> >  kfl
> >
>
>
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