Apocrypha Now!

[Bryan Snyder]

agreed, he takes it seriously because people do... but understands it is
low-brow (mostly) and applies it, i think, very effectively.



On 1/17/07, Jay Herzog <zogboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I liked the Mekons vs. Frederick Jameson smackdown (needless to say
> the Mekes win in a walk). I haven't read anything else yet in the
> book.
>
> BTW, I think Pynchon takes pop seriously, which is not to say he takes
> it pompously.
>
> J.
>
> On 1/17/07, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i read the intro--it's godawful
> >
> > pop shouldn't be taken so seriously imho
> >
> > i hate this introducing buffy to dh lawrence type shit
> >
> > who has the chutzpah to call themselves "outsiders" particularly some
> fool
> > who has his books published by Harvard?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/07, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Flipped through it @ a shop, is all, so ...
> > >
> > > --- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > funny, but this kinda stuff exudes arrogant
> > > > pretension up the wazoo
> > > >
> > > > On 1/16/07, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hampton, Howard.  "Apocrypha Now!  An Imaginary
> > > > >    Discography of Thomas Pynchon's Paranoids."
> > > > >    Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical
> > > > >    Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses.  Cambridge,
> > > > >    MA: Harvard UP, 2007.  413-26
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAMBOR.html
>
>
>
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