Pynchon/Bloom/Terrance/MTV Death Match

[John Carvill]

A blast form the past, courtesy of  (the original) Terrance:


Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:41:24 -0400 
From: Terrance <lycidas2@[omitted]> 
Subject: Re: Pynchon & Bloom MTV Death Match 


Harry: VINELAND was a total disaster. 


Tommy: I don't guess that will stop you from putting your name on a
"Critical Interpretations of Vineland" anytime soon.
Wha? 


Harry: I cannot think of a comparable disaster in modern American
fiction.


Tommy: It's POST modern, Harry. Post. 


Harry: Post This! ""This piece of sheer ineptitude. 


Tommy: (Strained Captain Kirk Vocals, Reaching with 
Homer-on-Bart's-Throat Grip hands) Uh, Sccccreaming Cuuuuuuummmmmmmms


Harry: (Strained Captain Kirk Vocals too) Thisssss hope less ly hol  low
book ahhhhhh  which I red through in a maze   mmmmm   ent and dis  be 
LEEF   and 
which hhhhh  has    not    got   in    it    a
re   deeming sen tence, hardly a re dee  ming phrase  and is   im  
men   slee   dis    heart   en   ing ....  



The Paris Review Writers At Work Interviews, 9th series, p, 205










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