Pynchon's epideictic

[Paul Nightingale]

I know you guys are having difficulties here. The following three
paragraphs (that's 1-2-3) are what I wrote. (And again, sorry.)

I think of the way trailers introduce a film with a tightly-edited
selection of highlights (and therefore re-edit or rewrite the film after
the event but in anticipation).

Or the way a speaker at a public gathering announces the guest speaker.
By implication we're all there for the guest, unless we came in off the
street to avoid the snow blizzard and found out the booze was free. But
the guest still has to be introduced, framed by the social gathering we
attend.

There's a bit of both in the Foreword. But the reader has to opt for
reading the Foreword first.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 04 June 2003 21:59
> To: Paul Nightingale; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pynchon's epideictic
> 
> 
> So doesn't both include one?  At least a "bit" of one?
> 
> --- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Read down the page (I know it's a drag, but humour me) and you'll
notice
> the
> following giveaway line: "There's a bit of both in the Foreword."
Sorry to
> disappoint you.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Terrance [mailto:lycidas2 at earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: 04 June 2003 21:29
> > > To: Paul Nightingale
> > > Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > > Subject: Re: Pynchon's epideictic
> > >
> > >
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0305&msg=80620&sort=thread
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul Nightingale wrote:
> > > >
> > > > No I didn't say that.
> > > >
> > > > > paul
> > > > > N. notes that the cover of the book reads like a movie
trailer.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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