the woodstock generation

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:54, R. Fiero wrote:
> pynchonoid wrote:
> >If one needed proof that the Woodstock generation has
> >thrown in the towel, grabbed the money and ran, it is
> >this: Bob Dylan's new Victoria's Secret ad. Looking
> >more like a furtive bus station lecher than a music
> >legend, he leers at a very young female cavorting
> >through a deserted Venetian palace in panties, bra,
> >costume wings and his cowboy hat. What a sad and
> >tawdry spectacle Dylan makes as sex gear huckster.
> ><http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=40157>
> 
> Alright. jbor is now spoofing pynchonoid's email address.

this is interesting but someone's gotta explain it to stupid me.

> But this is interesting: "What a sad and tawdry spectacle Dylan 
> makes as sex gear huckster."

Sounds like celebrity "sad and tawdry" can sell sex ware.

> 1. Looking at a pretty woman makes one a "sad and tawdry" spectacle.
> 2. Un

Not necessarily apparently.

> derwear is "sex gear."

At those prices it better be.


> 3. She has a great face.   One might not notice the underwear.

Maybe, maybe not . . .

> 
> It seems that Trickster is walking here somewhere nearby.
> 
> To correct an earlier misstatement by myself,  Zoyd is not a 
> shaman, he is a Trickster.  The two are antithetical. 
> 

Advertising Age seems to be jocularly mocking the Woodstock generation.
In the service of innovative advertising.

Is this like Pynchon jocularly mocking the student revolutionaries? Is
this the jbor (Robert Jackson) tie-in?

But what is P's purpose? He's not trying sell sex gear. It must be in
the service of writing worthy novels.



P.