"played the P-list like a violin..."

[rich]

guessing the Balkans reference may refer to the Hungary-angle
(austria-hungary, serbia) rumored about?

rich


On 7/20/06, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/07/2006:
>
> > Has anyone looked back to see exactly how long that book description
> > might have been up before it was taken down?
>
> Pretty sure it was less than 24 hours, though you can't be sure how
> long it was before Jeremy first came across it.
>
> Assuming now (headslap and exclamation marks) that it is a message from
> "the master" (as that Slade journo who misquoted the Penguin publicity
> chief and then issued a retraction dubbed him), it's a bit odd.
>
> Maybe it is a parody. I can see that line of thinking now too.
>
> Revisiting this blog contribution:
>
> "After World War I in the Balkans, a region troubled by moronic
> fecklessness, anarchist balloonists and decadents explore an
> unpredictable future. Mostly they are just trying to pursue their
> lives. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most
> part stupid songs in obscure languages, highlighted by a cameo
> appearance of Groucho Marx. Let the reader beware, contrary-to-the-fact
> occurrences occur."
>
> http://toddius.livejournal.com/407428.html
>
> Yes. It's just a blurb too.
>
> The question is not so much what (and it isn't much of a blurb, as
> blurbs go, really), but why? Waves of reductivism and expansionism? In
> gradual doses? Pumping us up for a massive case of gigantism on 5/12?
> Perhaps it is that viral insemination doohickey through the iOsphere
> that was mentioned. Though the marketing strategy implications of that
> line of thought are still problematic:
>
> http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/comments/860/
>
> Was the elided subject of the Subject Line up top meant to be "TRP"? Or
> "Jules"?
>
> best
>
>
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