Pynchon & Kubrick

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon & Kubrick


> <<You still owe us your own theory on interpreting
> cultural artifacts.>>
>
> It never occurred to me that I need have a theory on
> interpreting cultural artifacts, let alone that I owe
> an explanation of same.
>

Then you shouldn't dismiss such a helpful tool so easily.

> That said, I'd be hard pressed to imagine--let alone
> put stock in--a theory that allows one so to muddle
> the idea of perceiver and creator and so blithely
> disregard the (let's say) two dozen reasons other than
> smuggled homage to one's favorite writer that the
> words "Glen Cove" might have appeared -- e.g.,
> establishing that the film's action has moved to Long Island.
>

You would be a lousy literary critic if your antennas weren't crying "alarm"
if you read "Glen Cove" in a Kubrick-movie with such a title. Kubrick wasn't
such a lousy director and I simply don't believe that this is pure
coincidence, given the (let's say) two million other places he could have
chosen to move the film's action to.

Otto