VLVL Pynchon's filtered narration

[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon is likely no less critical a teevee watcher
than Frenesi is.  By necessity.  Of course ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> ... the point would be that Frenesi has (Hector,
> too, undoubtedly, and the astuteness here is in
> Frenesi being able to locate the sources of Hector's
> mannerisms and pitch so readily, and the way that
> Pynchon is using these references in a collusive way
> with the reader to build up the characterisations
> and the relationship between the two characters in
> this scene). And, necessarily, of course, Pynchon
> must himself also have been an avid viewer of the
> three programs in order to construct the bit (and
> note the 'Star Trek' allusion Frenesi makes just
> beforehand, obviously a show which rates near the
> top of Pynchon's viewing list.)
> 
> I don't think it's accurate to describe _TV Guide_
> as a "right-wing weekly" ...

Ah, well, there you have it then ...

> ... and I don't believe that Pynchon thinks it's
> an accurate or reasonable assessment either.

Can't argue with that logic ...

> About all there is left to say is that "I pity the
> fool" with the proven inability to detect irony.

"It takes a smart guy to play dumb" ...


	
		
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