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[jd]

I'm over a half hour into the film... it's... interesting.  I wish
they would cut out all the bits that contain just music and random
images and get to the dialogue better.

Seigel seems to believe that LSD was foisted on the baby boomers by
the CIA and that Pynchon not only was aware of it but may have been a
part of it - and that GR has hints that indicate some kind of
confession.  The way the video is cut seems to point to Dog Vanya
being one of those "hints".  I dunno.  Seems pretty, uh, out there.

But Seigel's wife there, she takes the film crew to where Pynchon
lived in Mexico City and talks about how he would sit on the beach for
a couple hours a day and never got a tan, always had pasty white skin.
 That he wanted to go to the Chicago anti-Vietnam demonstration and
that he talked about Vietnam a lot, and insinuates that GR is very
much a book about Vietnam, the Germans being the aggressors in WWII
and the Americans being aggressors in Vietnam.

Overall I'd say it's something to fill the time before the new book
comes out but it seems to be a lot of BS.  One of the people in the
beginning of the film speculates that Pynchon may have taken the same
bus as Lee Harvey Oswald down into Mexico, that maybe they struck up a
conversation.

A bookstore owner mentions that Pynchon came to his shop, that people
who went to the shop were followed, that he himself was followed by
government agents.  Apparently once Pynchon realized the owners of the
shop knew who he was, he began to show up dressed in disguise as a
woman.

This sort of makes me feel a bit like "going through his trash" as
someone said earlier...  one of those things that, being a pretty
rampant fan, I can't not look at when it's right there to look at, but
also one of those things I sort of wish wasn't there, even if it is
primarily BS.

On 8/7/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ... unless I misread his message.  May be instead ...
>
> http://www.csathemovie.com/index2.html
>
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0389828/
>
> Well, either/or ...
>
> --- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > ... out Public Library system has now ordered six
> > copies.  It pays to know people in low places ...
>
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