Oakley Hall essay

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Mon Aug 28 20:18:26 CDT 2006


The best part of the movie was the line: "This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about."

Laura

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>From: Scott Badger <lupine at ncia.net>
>Sent: Aug 28, 2006 8:27 PM
>To: David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Re: Oakley Hall essay
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>On another note, has anyone seen the Tristram Shandy movie? I really enjoyed 
>the parts taken from the book, but the movie-about-making-the-movie scenes, 
>while, in a way, consistent with the book, were, I thought, completely 
>wit-less in comparison. Made me wonder (as is asked several times in the 
>movie), with so much material to choose from, why....? Could have been a 
>great Monty Python production, me'thinks.
>
>Scott
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