Re. Brown: A Pynchon for the nineties
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 11:23:11 CDT 2005
watching for the umpteenth time, on dvd this time, the recently re-issued
Videodrome, couldn't help thinking that adage about the TV looking in at you
kinda hard to think that Pynchon didn't see the film back in 1983
rich
On 9/6/05, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:
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> Don't really want to start up the old Vineland debate(s) yet again....
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> >Vineland received mixed reviews: on the positive side, many were glad
> to >have him back; on the negative side, some accused him of lowering
> his >standards and pandering to television addicts and the swiftly
> burgeoning >nostalgia for the fashions,,issues and energy of late 1960s
> America. [...]
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> ...but: how could Pynchon be "pandering to television addicts" just by
> writing a book with a lot of TV references in it? Would the TV addicts
> ever get to enjoy the pandering? Wouldn't they have to read the book to
> find out how much TV was in it?
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