runs
Burns, Erik
Erik.Burns at dowjones.com
Tue Jun 24 13:07:00 CDT 2003
Foax:
Terrance wrote:
>If we have seen the programs before, we probably are not watching to
>find out what happens to familiar characters, as we would be with
>first-run programs.
>Rather, we are watching familiar characters do familiar and predictable
>things.
[plus all related posts thereafter, with quotes.]
I think we're on to something here. After all, didn't VN famously say "all
reading is rereading" - and that notion is important to Kinbote and to _Pale
Fire_, as all the haggling here about how to (re)read it proves. Perhaps
Pynchon's moved on to "all television is reruns"?
certainly one of the most pleasant things about VN and Pynchon (and plenty
of other writers) is that re-reading is re-warding.
etb
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