Interlude: If James Wood Supposes...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Further dogmas:

1.  Hard to read 1984 (even the Pynchon forward) after learning that Orwell worked as an informant for the British Government.

2.  One Fish Two Fish is Seuss' GR

3.  Any movie with Tom Hanks sucks.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 8, 2008 1:57 AM
>To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Interlude: If James Wood Supposes...
>
>> > I've said it before:  GR
>> >was the high point.
>> >
>> >David Morris
>
>> No argument here.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>
>I've got similar dogmas on various items - e.g.
>
>Pink Floyd after Ummagumma - meh...
>Rod Stewart never shoulda left the Small Faces
>(actually, ditto for many solo careers)
>Dylan peaked at Blond on Blond (still great after, just never _as_ great)
>Fleetwood Mac at Bare Trees
>Dos Passos as a reactionary leaves me more than cold
>Lucy Carmichael doesn't hold a candle to Lucy Ricardo
>1st season of The Wire still the best (of the 3 I've seen so far)
>Barefoot in the Park incomparably better than (what I gather about) Spamalot
>1st Matrix (what, there were more Matrix movies? I was trying to forget)
>Spicoli still the most engaging Sean Penn role
>Bush's 1st term unmatched in evil accomplishments by the 2nd
>(hope that stays true...)
>Chet Kincaid more fun than Cliff Huxtable
>
>on the flip side,
>William Frawley as Bub O'Casey was cooler than as Fred Mertz
>Faust _much_ better than Werther
>Goldie Hawn in The Banger Sisters vs in Bird on a Wire - much better!
> Abbey Road better than Sgt Pepper
>Shakespeare in Love beats Rosencranz and Guildenstern
>2nd Newhart sitcom was even better than the 1st! (RIP Suzanne Pleshette)
>Lou Grant even better in Lou Grant than in MTM Show
>...etc etc,
>and that's the list I've got AtD (& M&D and Vineland) in
>
>can't argue with anyone who finds GR great -
>but for me the later books fill reading needs that
>(heresy?) GR didn't meet, even at the time.
>
>Have less of a certain jolting quality that some miss but not me...
>Are as insanely referential, with just a tad more sweetness,
>a smidgen more character study.
>Aren't overtly incompatible with the notion that they seem to move
>toward a more optimistic worldview...