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[David Patty]

Brilliant pull!  The rest of the blog's smart stuff, too.  I've been
studying book covers lately so this is definitely bookmarked for future
reference.  Thanks for the tip!

Vaguely O/T, listening to a Lester Bangs interview first thing in the
morning:

http://interviewsarchive.com/catalogue.htm

The interview is in two parts of forty, forty-five minutes apiece.  I'm
fourteen minutes in on part one and Bangs is bashing the tendency in music
for marketing nostalgia--  nostalgia limits art, it stamps an expiration
date on the finished product, it *determines its eventual obsolescence*
--which gets me to thinking how Pynchon's never particularly given a damn
for the past as a 'better place'.  Guess that's why sprawling historical
adventures like 'M&D' work for me:  he's not trying to paint it as idealized
or an escape from modern-day woes.  The effort's undertaken w/ honest
intentions; Pynchon sits down to write by asking "What about this period
fascinates *me*," and goes on to follow his obsessions *a la* Ballard,
whereas historical dramas in Hollywood come & go in (ugh!) almost
*tidal*vogues...

Think that explains why I'm looking forward to Pynchon's new one.  It'll
doubtless be completely different than the initial pitch, but I'm salivating
over the prospect of a detective novel set in the psychedelic sixties
because I want to see how at odds it is with mass-market fascinations /
stereotypes re: noir in film & comics, etc...  Pynchon as the anti-Hammett?

I need coffee, obviously.  Ooh!  Tasty CB interference twenty-eight minutes
in...  This interview really has *texture*.

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