tenuous links

[Otto Sell]

>p.s what the fuck was that german geezer/geezette talkin abaht?
       summat german no doubt...

Former TP-editor Michael Naumann, now ex-member of the actual German government, has got a new job as an editor of a major German weekly. Marginally Pynchon-related.

>ubik 
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

No doubt that Dick is a recognized author among the Pynchonites. 

"The three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1964) came out over here under the strange title "LSD-Astronauten" (LSD-Astronauts) in 1971 first. 
"Ubik" (1969) is of course "UBIK" at a nice Suhrkamp-edition from 1977, with an afterword by Stanislaw Lem. Tell me, is the opening quote in Middle German been translated or German in the original too?

Ich sih die liehte heide
in gruner varwe stan
dar suln wir alle gehen,
die sumerzeit enphahen

Not to forget Dick's great "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968), better known as "Blade Runner," and "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" (1965) which most will remember as "Total Recall."

Otto
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: fnicki dzolta 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:25 PM
  Subject: tenuous links


  right
   
  yer know lazy reviewers who fall back
  on that good old method of comparin
  an author to another via a third?
   
  well, philip k dick is a poor man's pynchon
  according to one of the afformentioned vermin
  except he isn't
   
  of course you cry
   
  but phil is in a different league:
  whereas pynchon's style is a bit confusin
  but his plots are kinda straight forward,
  phil's style is kinda straight forward
  but his plots are all over the place,
  and envigoratin to say t' least

  what im tryin to say is
  READ PHILIP K DICK
  AND DO IT NOW
  for example:
   
  valis
  a scanner darkly
  ubik
  the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

  so from one tenuous link to another:

  dick writes sf
  pynchon likes to read sf

  for all those who do not know dick's work
  become familiar
  for all those who do know dick's work
  buy more
  read em again

  there
  im done

  i guess this is as relevant
  as that other message about turkeys

  bye



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