ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Ya Sam]

Exactly. I don't think the really key passage (e.g. the famous long sentence 
in Mondaugen's Story) should be excerpted.


>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 01:42:27 +0100
>
>Penguin of 1972 should have given fans the impression that the
>follow-up to V would be nothing but limericks.
>
>
>
>On 8/4/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>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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