Ah, those Vineland echoes between genuises

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: Ah, those Vineland echoes between genuises


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> One of Mr. Godard’s frequently cited sayings is the claim that all he 
> needed to make a movie was a girl and a gun.

I believe the girl left him a short time later.

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> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:41:23 PM
> Subject: 1966, the Left, fascism and more
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> I have just seen Godard's "Made in USA". 1966 but never--or barely; not 
> sure---released in the United States (they say) before
> 2008! Which amazes me. (And told as if 67-69 HAVE happened within the 
> film. As if it is set in the just-ahead future)
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> You do not need me, only Godard's name, to recommend it. I have only a 
> beginning understanding of it. (I feel like the first
> time I read C of Lot49 with it).
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> Dead leftist whom Anna Karina loved and is trying to find out how he died. 
> a pulp fiction writer fictionalized; the real Marianne
> Faithful, a movie being made while the pulp writer writes and The Left, 
> Communists (in France), fascism fears, five deaths, maybe some
> 'real"....Left: Year Zero flashes, Quote: "The Right is so cruel it is 
> blind; The Left is sentimental" but the major reason for this post is 
> this:
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> 5, 6, 7 times during the film, shot largely outside, supposedly in 
> Atlantic City (within the film framing) and near a military base someone
> says, the noticable loud sound---screaming--- of jets comes across the 
> screen. Wonderful.
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