Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

[tbeshear]

Judging from evidence within IV, Pynchon also loves "Scooby Doo," 
"Gilligan's Island," "Dark Shadows" and Godzilla flicks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:31 AM
Subject: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!


>
> ... 10.48 h, the phone rings, it's my local book dealer telling me that
> IV has arrived ... me: 'Damn, I'm not even dressed, but don't you go away
> and, please, Watch that Book, will ya? I'll be there in a minute or two!'
> Which was metaphorically speaking, since I have to make one-three-couple
> of subway-stations before I can enter the shop, and so I brushed my teeth
> and slipped into my leather suit: outta house I was ... While I was riding
> the subway I realized that I had forgotten my shoes, surfing barefoot,
> a-and from that moment on it all unfolded like in a clear dream ... The
> sun came out when I was on the street again, and inside the shop, 
> heartbeat
> a little faster than usual, I saw --- they have a shelf with the arrived
> books in alphabetical order in relation to the customers' names --- at 
> once
> what I was looking for: INHERENT VICE! (I mean, can you dig it? I have the
> whole house alone for myself, no family duties: no reason to go out, and 
> the
> new Thomas Pynchon novel is there just for me to make the coming days & 
> nights
> fun!) ... I was so existed that I talked my book dealer --- who only read
> Vineland but wasn't convinced --- into ordering "Die Enden der Parabel"
> (the German edition of GR) for herself... The magic first opening of the
> New Book let my eyes fall on the first line of page 7, where the italics
> say "2001: A Space Odyssey" ... Pynchon must really love this movie ---
> you remember that scene from Vineland, where Hector places a Ganja 
> monolith
> in Zoyd's house and Zoyd asks: What is this? '2001: A Space Odyssey?'
> whereupon Hector, good punchline: no doubt, answers: 'Looks more like
> '20 000 Years in Singsing'? IV's jacket design & image looks really MUCH
> better when you hold the Book in hands. The people inside the pictured 
> Surf
> Shop, whom I never really recognized when I saw the announcements on the
> screen, they come closer now, an intense Mise en Scène à la Edward Hopper 
> ...
> A-and though I've not read much yet, I can already say that I really like
> the new prose StYLE a lot ... While M&D and Atd, imo, suffer from being
> compiled from drafts outta different decades, Inherent Vice sounds as
> if written as a whole in one happy period ... Enough, there's a Book
> up there waiting for me!
>
> Under the paving-stones, the beach!
> Kai
>
> PS: The Beatles title mentioned on p. 3. is NOT 'She loves you', but 
> 'Can't Buy Me Love" -
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waewnX3UKzw