Pynchon's Celebration of Television as a Preterite Medium in *Vineland*

[David Morris]

Thanks for the pertinent  texts "jbor,"

We all knew Pynchon wasn't the dullard those who try to coopt his name for 
their lame causes would have us believe.  Pynchon's world is not so simple 
as theirs.

David Morris

>From: "jbor"
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>http://home1.gte.net/shadow88/index.htm
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>Pynchon's attitude toward TV is easy to figure out: He loves it, but at the 
>same time he distrusts it deeply. [snip] (A reasonably reliable source 
>reports that Pynchon is a tube-watching insomniac.)
>
>And, in the conclusion to the (*1984*) 'Is it OK to be a Luddite?' article 
>Pynchon comments that "because of the data revolution, it becomes every day 
>less possible to fool any of the people any of the time."
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