another comic book

[Bekah]

Whew!  (g)

Bek
hoping you're right



At 6:59 PM +0100 1/4/05, François Monti wrote:
>From what I know, it's just a sort of metaphor. 
>The protagonist sees "images" of his life, 
>little bits here and there. I wouldn't take 
>"graphic" too literaly.
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>François
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>Bekah
>To: <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:23 PM
>Subject: RE: another comic book
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>  "and the life racing before his eyes takes the 
>form of a graphic novel."   (context below)
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>Does this mean that parts of the book  are in a 
>graphic novel format,  like little square comic 
>type pictures?
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>Can Eco draw? What is this meaning?
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>Bekah
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>At 10:38 AM -0500 1/4/05, Richard Romeo wrote:
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>>Life as seen a graphic novel seems pretty comic to me
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>Richard
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: François Monti [mailto:francois at neovoid.org]
>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:37 PM
>To: Richard Romeo; pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: another comic book
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>Errr, it doesn't really strike me as being a novel about comics....
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>----- Original Message -----
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>From: <mailto:r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org>Richard Romeo
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>To: <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>pynchon-l at waste.org
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>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:55 PM
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>Subject: another comic book
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>God, if eco has written a novel about comicsŠ.when will it end
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>Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in 
>Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can 
>remember the plot of every book he has ever 
>read, every line of poetry, but he no longer 
>knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife 
>or his daughters, and remembers nothing about 
>his parents or his childhood. In an effort to 
>retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family 
>home somewhere in the hills between Milan and 
>Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches 
>through boxes of old newspapers, comics, 
>records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. 
>And so Yambo relives the story of his 
>generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and 
>guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred 
>Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life 
>racing before his eyes takes the form of a 
>graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the 
>frames to capture one simple, innocent image: 
>that of his first love.
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><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151011400/qid=1104789565/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4340572-8526558?v=glance&s=books>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151011400/qid=1104789565/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4340572-8526558?v=glance&s=books
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>Richard
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