Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

[rich]

why were shaggy and scooby always hungry?  huh huh...

and that velma...oboy

rich

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, tbeshear<tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
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> Judging from evidence within IV, Pynchon also loves "Scooby Doo,"
> "Gilligan's Island," "Dark Shadows" and Godzilla flicks.
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> ----- 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
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