Subject: Re: VLVL(5) At the Movies and on the Tube

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 10 10:05:21 CDT 2003


Dave:
> I probably saw at least as great a number/variety of
> old (or, at least, older than me) movies on the
local
> UHF channel during the 70s than I've watched on
> cable/VCR/DVD since.  Including but hardly limited
to
> Mildred Pierce.
Otto:
>What about the strange idea of describing his "inner
>feelings" by a
>movie-quote?

Typically American (in the US part of the America's at
least) in the Vineland '80s and since.

Otto:
> It doesn't make those feelings very
>authentic.

I suspect that's Pynchon's point.






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