Real Action Fiction and a new Jameson article

[Richard Fiero]

Dave Monroe wrote:
>New Left Review 23, September-October 2003
>
>Reflections on William Gibson's Pattern Recognition: a
>contemporary dialectic of style, as the Verne of
>cyberspace turns to the branded present and its
>nauseas.
>
>FREDRIC JAMESON
>
>FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBALIZATION . . .

Odd . . . The whole Takeshi Fumimota thing starting with Zoyd's 
gig in the airplane through DL and the Puncutron is Gibson. A 
night or maybe a lifetime in the New Rose Hotel anyone? Beats 
me how Mr. Jameson avoids mention of VL.
More than work defining the characters, it's simply what they 
do. Pale Fire is pretty entertaining for the first third, maybe 
fourth or fifth. Suffering along with Kinbote's creepiness 
brought to us by his brain chatter really made me appreciate 
characters known only by means of  their actions. That Hector 
is the only one that comes to mind who attempts to change his 
routine and become something else while managing to stay in character.