VineLand-IntraVenous: Un-Pop culture

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Good point, but there's another exception: Robert Musil.
Not unimportant for P, I guess.

Right, it's framed inside TV-movie ontology. Yet still ...

"About the time the show ended, Prairie came by, Zoyd and
Flash went off looking for beer, and she and Justin settled
down, semi-brother and sister, in front of the Eight O'Clock
Movie, Pee-wee Herman in THE ROBERT MUSIL STORY. It was mostly
Pee-wee talking in a foreign accent, or sitting around in front
of some pieces of paper with some weird-looking marker pen, and
the kids' attention kept wandering to each other." (pp. 370-1)

Portrait of the Artist as a magick marker Icon, so to speak:
 
KFL+



>
> Several things occurred to me while re-reading VL so far.
> First, the lack of high culture. No Botticelli, Beethoven, or
> any of the other high culture references so prominent in
> the novels that preceded VL- not even a cartoon or a
> kazoo version. "Classic" in this book refers to a car, a tv
> show, a movie or some other pop venue, and nothing
> more. There is the Marquis de Sade, but I'm not sure how
> to classify the Marquis- high, low or something else.
>