ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:18 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> "and no doubt under the influence of the family lawyer who advised  
> a fully orchestrated media blitz to sway prospective jurors before  
> the case actually goes to trial and hopefully get an oprah  
> recommendation."
>
> Pynchon on Oprah!!! I can see some strong-armed minions of "Harpo"  
> productions flinging hardbound copies of Against The Day into the  
> audience, knocking the glasses off of elderly fans in the front  
> rows (who fail to duck)doubtless resulting in physical damage and  
> multiple lawsuits, perhaps a class action suit (which will fold in  
> twenty-odd victims of various visual disorders created by the  
> attempts to absorb all that text). I can Hardly wait! TRP will no  
> doubt share treasured family recipes (many with the "universal  
> binding ingredient"---"this is Thomas PinShawn for Campbell's Cream  
> Of Mushroom Soup...") and take questions from the audience: "Uh,  
> yeah, so like---what happens at the end of Crying of Lot, um . . .,  
> wait a minute, I mean do they get the bad guys or what?" Numerous  
> display shelves at BigBox stores will be crushed by the sheer  
> weight of the book, resulting in more class action lawsuits . . .
>
> "I've read GR times."
>
> Really? Where can I find a copy? Is it a daily or . . .

GR is so 20th Century . . . .