IV Blog Teaser

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Maybe not. All three samples given so far were lame.

"Doc took the freeway out. The eastbound lanes teemed with VW buses in jittering paisleys, primer-coated street hemis, woodies of authentic Dearborn pine, TV-star-piloted Porsches, Cadillacs carrying dentists to extramarital trysts, windowless vans with lurid teen dramas in progress inside, pickups with mattresses full of country cousins from the San Joaquin, all wheeling along together down into these great horizonless fields of housing, under the power transmission lines, everybody’s radios lasing on the same couple of AM stations, under a sky like watered milk, and the white bombardment of a sun smogged into only a smear of probability, out in whose light you began to wonder if anything you’d call psychedelic could ever happen, or if—bummer!—all this time it had really been going on up north."

It's like in AtD, the long sentences they just don't scan anymore, they simply fall off the table ...
Did Pynchon lose his rhythm? And if "something bigger" than clusters of cliches -- what? A whale?

Kai

PS: Of course, of course, TRP is a ZIPPO and us we're all just lil' matchsticks ;-)


David Morris wrote:

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> God! Cliches piled over the top!
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> Maybe it builds into something bigger than this pile.
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, rich> wrote:
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> another short paragraph here:
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> http://litlicense.blogspot.com/2009/07/thomas-pynchon-teaser.html
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> have to say, it's pretty lousy
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