eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

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> The passage IS awful, so much so that it constitutes Pynchon's  
> "wink, wink.  I know this is bad," style.  A whole book of this  
> would be unbearable.  That's why some are assuming this must be a  
> short sub-story within the larger story of the novel.  But even by  
> itself, it just aint funny.


I'm thinking the excerpt may  represent a particular subgenre of pulp  
western, namely lesbian pulp western. Don't know if there is or ever  
was a such a subgenre in real life. Sounds unlikely for the time  
frame of this novel but not a bad idea for Pynchon's imaginative  
energies..

But why ANY kind of pulp western or pulp western writer (Pynchon  
equivalent of Kilgore Trout)? Seems logical that Pynchon would at  
some time attempt some kind of  theory of the connection between low  
and high culture. The post-war Paris sequence may involve Surrealism.  
Maybe the surrealists decide to latch onto  American pulp writing and  
one pulp  writer in particular. An important feature of pulp  
magazines was the  cover art. Might be something  a surrealist could  
find inspirational.




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> Ghetta
>
>> From: Rcfchess at aol.com
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>> robinlandseadel at comcast.net writes:
>>
>> Nah,  don't think it's awful myself, but it does seem more VL than  
>> GR to me.
>> Not  that there's anything wrong with that . . .
>>
>> I'd say that's a fair and accurate assessment, and the reason why  
>> some on this list appear to be relatively disappointed, but  
>> perhaps why it's a more commercially appealing selection for the  
>> mass market consumer.
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