To: All plister foax on pub day

[Michael Bailey]

actually I've sent it out a bit already.
why not, can't hurt?  My boss at work was intrigued, for one.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> As John Carville and others have lamented here, Penguin doesn't seem to do
> much to "market" Pynchon, a hard-enough project given some of the author's
> beliefs about his privacy.
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> Part of what Pynchon is about, as we know, is a self-organizing 'anarchism' alternative outside the official communication system.
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> He has given his voice to a cool promotional video which Penguin has done
> for this book---the official horn, so to speak---but what is to happen to it beyond us sending it to each other?
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> Idea: Whyn't we all try to make it reach hundreds of thousands, nay, is a million possible? If we core readers sent that video to scores of others we know asking them to send it to many they knew, we all know how the math works on "compound interest", as I just now register the pun on "interest"; A--and, if we know many,as we all do, who don't know or give a twit about Thomas Pynchon, we might just tell them it is a cool video aobut the sixties and frame it with words like "as if narrated by the Dude, a bit older, from The Big Lebowski"--or whatever we want to say--
> continuing that this novel has already been called The Bigger Lebowski...or suchlike.
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> Goal might be a the hugest number of hits on the Penguin promo video we can get, NOT ever asking anyone to buy a copy, although some should sell if enough get it, of course. We will overload the Maxwell's Demon, produce
> an at least temporary overcoming of publishing entropy, put Pynchon's voice
> into the ears of many; many who do not even know who he is, but also maybe creating some new readers for TRP, Mealnie and Jackson. Maybe helping TRP hit bestseller lists,  not done since 'Gravity's Rainbow"?
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> Think on it: our very own 'anarchist miracle', so to allude?!
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> Anyway, I am. My email will link to the video via a doc that says something
> like "Pynchon Speaks! Pynchon, Reading. You know you want to know what his voice sounds like and this is the closest we will get to a public book reading."  And, a second to non-book friends telling them as above re The Dude and, maybe that it is an effort at maximizing views of a cool book video about the sixties...
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> We can get news stories, I bet, if we get them million+ Penguin hits!
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