breaking it down

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/17/2006 9:49:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com writes:

The  whole description is very tougue-in-cheek, and a bit self-disparaging,  
which fits just right for Pynchon's voice.  He's always playing with  
people's expectations, and does make EVERYTHING into a joke of  sorts.




I think it's possible - my take, anyway - that Amazon approached him for a  
blurb to get people pre-ordering, & he came up w. this as a way of getting  
them off his back, giving them enough of what they wanted and at the same time  
showing that he was only half-heartedly into the selling of it, as opposed to  
just writing it & letting it sell itself. And then, after they posted it on  
the website, some high muckety-muck at Amazon prob. looked at it & said it  
wasn't serious enough, so they took it down. Sound like a possibility,  folks?!
 
RF
 
PS - I'm still anxiously awaiting the rest of y'all to come up w. possible  
stupid titles like I did, so we can all be proven wrong together...I don't want 
 to be the only one...
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