Pynchon & Kubrick

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:56, Otto wrote:
> ----- 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.

Not everyone has the Magic Eyes--wide open or wide shut.

Otto, aren't you indulging in a Hollanderesquerie?

Not to support any particular theory I realize. (in your favor)










To p-listers the movie title suggests less of Pynchon than of Hollander.
Magic Eyes Wide Shut.