Pynchon & Kubrick --- glen cove

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy 
There us probably not much evidence to be found that Kubrick's read
Pynchon. It is a dead certainty that he has seen Hitchcock's "North by
Northwest", where Glen Cove harbors spies masquerading as wicked rich
people, and comical policemen --- one of whom was named "Emile
Klinger." And isn't "The Great Gatsby" set in Glen Cove, or
thereabouts?

Glen Cove, of course, is one of the first truly FABULOUS enclaves you
would have found working your way out from New York City along the
north coast of Long Island early in the last century. It is one of
those places that catered to the rarified tastes and reptilian needs of
Americas industrial and banking clans during the long period between
the Civil War and the First World War. All (or almost all) of the great
estates have either been broken up into smaller lots for residential or
commercial real estate development ( a process that really got up and
running just after WWII) or else they persist in a vile, zombie-like
unTod state as "country clubs", where the great grand nephews of the
original robber-barons lie about their golf games, hide from their
chlorine-chorine wives and their sun-toasted tennis-playing children
with their revolting blond eyelashes and big chins and freckles (and
the Watney's bleeding Red Barrel!) and posture as though they still
owned the old grounds and all who sailed in them. And yet of course
they have to let the ethnics in anyway, because the old blood-stock is
dying out, weakening, going into accountancy or alternative medicine
(flower remedies and alchohol are both big), and because otherwise
there just isn't enough new money available to keep the greens clipped
and to subject the old buildings to serial suffocation in ugly asphalt
roofing, bad printed carpet, and their wrinkled skins of styrofoam and
fake stucco --- skinned like a stale pudding. 

Mark

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> Is there any evidence, by the way, that Kubrick ever read a word of
> Pynchon?
> 


	
		
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