TPPM Spiked! "Terminology Wised-Up Irony"

[Dave Monroe]

   "All through this Nutcracker, in fact, runs a
strange uneasy mixture of jaded musicians' sarcasm and
honest straight-world sentimentality. Nowadays, when
everybody knows everything and nobody takes any text
seriously, it's hard to remember how it felt once to
share a public world not as contaminated by the
terminology wised-up irony that has come to pervade
our own lives. People were still running on a residue
of belief in movies, and radio, and pop music--as if
there were an unspoken deal still in effect, despite
the war, despite everything. When the Nutcracker album
was released in November 1945, the war had just ended,
and Christmas was around the corner, the first
Christmas of peace. How could folks not be running on
emotions, many of them even unknown to us today?"

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_spiked.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_jones.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/spiked.html


"this Nutcracker"

http://www.bmgclassics.com/albums/product.jsp?id=82876628212

http://www.bmg.ch/bmg/productdetails.do?Kuenstler_Nr=5106

http://www.bmgclassics.com/albums/product.jsp?id=09026619822


"terminology wised-up irony"

Sic?  Should that be "terminally wised-up irony"
instead?  Makes more sense, but I don't have the CD
set, so somebody let me know.  Anyway, cf., e.g., ...

"Fariña has going for him an unerring and virtuoso
instinct about exactly what, in this bewildering
Republic, is serious and what cannot possibly be --
and on top of that, the honesty to come out and say it
straight."

"Here is somebody with the guts to go into the deepest
core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more
than anybody else has so far, just out of love for the
truth and a need to tell it. It's about time."

"Blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt -- a
story that moves with ease and certainty, deeply
respecting the given world even as it shines with the
integrity of a dream."

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html


"the war had just ended, and Christmas was around the
corner"

Just after the WWII events of Gravity's Rainbow ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_granalysis.html


"many of them unknown to us today"

Purdy, Jedediah.  For Common Things:
   Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today.
   New York: Knopf, 1999.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0375706917

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