VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards 24fps?

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> > In the Introduction to Fraiña's BDSL Pynchon says,
> >
> > Undergraduate consciousness rests in part on a set of careless
> > assumptions about being immortal. The elitism and cruelty often found in
> > college humor arises from this belief in one's own Exemption, not only
> > from time and death, but somehow from the demands of life as well.
> 
> On-line here at Quail's 'Modern Word' site, and certainly relevant to the
> depiction of the college kids, 24fps, PR3 etc in _Vineland_:
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_farina.html
> 
> Note also the way that Pynchon is again careful to emphasise the distance
> between his own college days ("1950s Cool") and those of the '60s
> counterculture, as he does in the _SL_ 'Intro', and of the sex and drugs and
> rock and roll angle which provides the prominent motivation of the Pisk
> sisters especially in _Vineland_:
> 
>     1958, to be sure, was another planet. You have to appreciate
>     the extent of sexual repression on that campus at the time.
>     Rock 'n' roll had been with us for a few years, but the formulation
>     Dope/Sex/Rock 'n' Roll hadn't yet been made by too many of us.
> 
> Pynchon describes the Cornell student protest against the curfews in far
> more sympathetic terms than he uses in _Vineland_, and his comment about
> Fariña's novel that "[t]here is no sense of sanctuary here, or eternal
> youth", repeats a criticism of other manifestations of youth rebellion which
> he makes in the _SL_ 'Intro (p. 9).
> 
> It might be worthwhile discussing the various intros, articles, essays and
> reviews Pynchon has written over the years, or perhaps even of some of the
> works themselves: Fariña's novel, Marquez's, Dodge's, Orwell's etc; in the
> context of what he has written about them and his own work. It might help in
> trying to work out the "karmic adjustment" stuff in _Vineland_ particularly.
> Speaking of Gnossos, Pynchon writes:
> 
>     He is susceptible to the thrill of vendetta or karmic adjustment,
>     an impulse I suspect isn't entirely absent from why Fariña wrote
>     the novel.


Not so sure it will be worth our while here, but there it is. Thanks for
opening the books Rob. Monroe. 

Seeya

T