AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[jbor at bigpond.com]

I don't think it's got the legs. But I suspect there'll be a few more 
morsels between now and then.

best

On 06/08/2006, at 11:33 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> Guess we can know with some certitude that this particular segment has 
> been marked as important.
>
> It's something worthwhile  for all of  us  to play around with until 
> November 18.


>> Yep, assonance. And I actually think that that "Trust me, I'm an 
>> osteopath" is the funniest one-liner in the segment.
>>
>> Just more on the way the dialogue implies the action, note how it's 
>> what Jimmy says that tells us that he's going through Willis's bag. 
>> Not the narration.
>>
>> I have to say that I was a bit thrown that this was the 
>> pre-publication excerpt released. I can't imagine that it's 
>> representative of the whole 992 pages, and it is pretty predictable 
>> and silly, and by no stretch of the imagination an example of 
>> literary genius.
>>
>> But I think it could be like rich said: an excerpt chosen to be 
>> accessible to the LCD (i.e., you must be at least "this tall" to go 
>> on this ride.) And it's part of the marketing strategy the other rich 
>> initially identified and alluded to (using priapism as his metaphor, 
>> iirc) -- not pitched at those of us who will buy it anyway, but at 
>> new readers.
>>
>> So, it probably serves its purpose. A pulp Western pastiche. A couple 
>> of punch-lines and double-takes. An innocent abroad + a 
>> cross-cultural comic double-act = corny hi-jinx. Flirting with cliché 
>> and cartoon caricatures. Imbedded historicity and allusiveness. Half 
>> a page.
>>
>> It could be the opening of the novel; I suspect it's the opening of a 
>> chapter or episode at least.
>>
>> What comes before, what it develops into, and what ontological 
>> schemas it is enfurled within in terms of the text as a whole, remain 
>> to be seen.