VLVL2 (2): Film as Metaphor (was Zoyd's Work )

[Tim Strzechowski]

Your questions suggest, therefore, that Pynchon purposely fashioned a Clara
Bow/Prairie connection to further her characterization.  The various
characters watching the various TV movies have a correspondance as well, you
seem to be saying.  Good point.  Care to elaborate?

By the way, I'm enjoying the variety of links to books and essays and such
that you've been posting.  Would you mind, though, maybe explaining why they
deserve our attention?

Respectfully,

Tim



From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>

>
> Why Clara Bow?
>
> Why all the other Pynchon mismatched programs?
>
> It's an ongoing gag, right?
>
> What's the gag?
>
> Would Prairie even know who CB was? Even if this made for the Tube movie
> existed, why would she be watching this movie? Nothing else on?
>
>
> Moreover, why would she be so TV/Film saturated and savvy as to be
> interested in CB?
>
> Come on.
>
>
> Later, Prairie and Che  talk about their families. Deftly alluding to
> Elvis and Patsy Cline these kids sound like parents. The background
> music for their exploits--a sprightly oboe-and-string rendition of Chuck
> Berry's Maybelene? Che's mom watched MTV all day. Frenesi and Flash have
> a boy and he watches McNeil-Lare.
>
> Your fifteen, Slide.
>
> And seen it all.
>
> How is it that these kids have seen it all and their parents seem to
> have missed it all?
>
> BTW the carrier pigeons come from someplace far across the ocean.
>