eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Guess I spent as much time watching TV as TRP did, mind you that about a third of the TV references in Vineland are playful bullshit and commentary (and running riffs on TeeVee Kulture, a 'la Firesign Theater's "TV Glide"). Love all those TeeVee Movies of the week that were cooked up in Vineland.
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From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> Is that excerpt, or that blrb, or the title, or
> .... going to keep any of you from reading the damn
> thing?
> 
> With Pynchon it's more likely that obscure language and evocation of 
> recondite knowledge is liable to keep the reader from comprehending the damn 
> thing! (Even this small excerpt made me wrack my brain over pinkinroller and 
> lilywhites)
> 
> BTW, for me personally, the most hard-to-understand Pynchon novel was 
> Vineland. I know zilch about all those culture specific items (especially 
> American TV of the period) he kept me bombarding with. Need to re-read it 
> some day with a good reader's guide.
> 
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