ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Ya Sam]

When I come to think of it, what could be 'the most representative' passage 
out of GR? Suppose, just suppose (it would've been impossible, but still) 
that Penguin Press published in its catalogue the scene with Katje and 
Brigadier Pudding, what would be the first reaction to the forthcoming 
novel?


>From: "Spencer T. Campbell" <spencer.t.campbell2 at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:18:50 +0100
>
>I'm sorry, I certainly wasn't trying to pass any kind of premature
>judgment on the novel itself--based on the title, the blurb, or any of
>it.  And 'dreadful' was, I admit, hyperbolic.  But, if authentic, I
>should like to think that the fact that it's filthy with pop-western
>cliche marks it as some kind of broad genre parody, as opposed to an
>attempt at the kind of genuine and aching drama that Pynchon has
>achieved in his other books.  I mean, "in classic throwdown posture"
>or "trying to aim it as straight as a shaking pair of hands would
>allow"...these are TV cues, not penetrating scene-setting.
>
>So my point was that, if it's a moment of caricature, it's odd that
>Penguin would choose to excerpt as advertisement.  I have every faith
>that Pynchon is sharp as ever, but this passage isn't particularly
>sharp.
>
>But Pynchon is difficult to excerpt (genious point, I know).  A lot of
>the power of individual passages is the endpoint of pages and pages of
>mounting incident or symbolic sleight-of-hand.
>
>In short: don't think a few paragraphs and some chatter mean this
>phone-book's a clunker, but don't undestand penguin's marketing
>strategy, either.
>
>
>On 8/4/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Dont like it on the basis of a title, a blurb, and
>>MAYBE one page?   Don't read it, then, I guess ...
>>
>>But then don't complain about it, either ...
>>

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