New Novel: The List.// "Dance the Eagle to Sleep"
kent mueller
artkm at execpc.com
Fri Jan 27 22:11:47 CST 2006
Just remembered, Chris Whittle is the demon's name...
Kent Mueller
> From: kent mueller <artkm at execpc.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:07:12 -0500
> To: Sean Mannion <third_eye_unmoved at hotmail.com>,
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: New Novel: The List.// "Dance the Eagle to Sleep"
>
> It was the first successful project by an advertising "Genius" whose name
> I've conveniently forgotten -- Google "Edison Project" and look for the
> founder's name. The same evil, devil-on-earth twit who proposed a billboard
> in outer space that would rival a full moon for brilliance in your night
> sky, some one mile across. If you go into a doctor's office and the only
> magazine available seems suspiciously light, suspiciously commercial and
> product driven; if there's a TV running that only gets one channel, and it
> seems suspiciously light, suspiciously commercial and product driven, that's
> also his product. If your child is partly educated, at school, by an hour or
> hours of television, that's probably his channel and his five minutes of
> advertising as well.
>
> Evil F'ing twit.
>
> And those ads in paperback books gave him his start.
>
> Kent Mueller
>
>
>> From: "Sean Mannion" <third_eye_unmoved at hotmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:41:47 +0000
>> To: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: RE: New Novel: The List.// "Dance the Eagle to Sleep"
>>
>> cigarettes?....
>> and...
>> books?...
>>
>> ...in the same package?...
>>
>> shame i was born too late for that masterstroke of marketing genius - and to
>> think all these years i could've been simultaneously smoking myself
>> bronchial AND destroying my eyesight at a fraction of the cost! That's nigh
>> a decade of Orwell's dillemma when it could've been so much easier...
>>
>> ...have to admit, though, it does sound like something liable to have turned
>> up in Bloom's ramblings during the zoned-out bits of 'Ithaca' from
>> Ulysses...
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Elainemmbell at aol.com" <Elainemmbell at aol.com>
>>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Subject: New Novel: The List.// "Dance the Eagle to Sleep"
>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:04:15 -0600
>>>
>>> On 1/25/06, Elainemmbell at aol.com <Elainemmbell at aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chime in on my theory: Dave Monroe IS Thomas Pynchon and he's dropping
>>> out
>>>> to finalize release of his new novel, "The List"...
>>>>
>>>
>>> which will win a major award and be featured on Rense.com as evidence
>>> of a new conspiracy in cyberspace....
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>> wanted to mention the paperback copy of "Dance the Eagle to Sleep" was
>>> one of those old paperbacks ($1.00 from Abebooks) which have a
>>> cigarette coupon (True cigarettes: remember those TV ads, "shouldn't
>>> your brand be True?"
>>> (one of the 1st low-tar cigarettes))
>>>
>>> The pages are old and starting to yellow, and I stuffed my nose deep
>>> into the opened book to get a long nostalgic whiff of 1970
>>>
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