NP: Great Dismal is William Gibson

[Michael Bailey]

but that stuff with the artists resonated with the Cornell boxes or
whatever from the Neuromancer, and the Michelin Man phobia was
hilarious, a-and her dad was lost or disappeared after 9-11, I like SC
too, Gibson used to be and maybe still is a little too sad, but the SC
stuff about those weird Riza/Valium dreams reminded me of that book
Robin kept recommending awhile ago, Lipstick Traces, and the
hoodoovoodoo stuff oh I love that stuff, not to mention the
freerunning...and the suit the guy finds in the closet of the safe
house...and that band the girl used to be in, and the performance art
of River Phoenix's last moments and Faulkner's too...woohoo...

d'oh.... mmm, Gibson!

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> guess i'm the odd man out--didn't like PR much--started off well but
> the ending was boring, the protagonist annoyed me, and that name
> dropping of brands and shit smacked of the Brett Easton Ellis gang
>
> On 5/27/09, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like PR a lot. The similarities with COL49 struck me when I read it
>> too. How about the name "Cayce Pollard"?
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Heikki:
>>>
>>>> Do you know if PR criticism contains comparisons of Cayce Pollard and
>>>> Oedipa Maas?
>>>
>>> It does, beginning with Lisa Zeidner's review in NYT (19 January 2003).
>>> Fredric Jameson
>>> also compares PR to Lot 49 in his essay in the New Left Review ("Fear and
>>> Loathing in
>>> Globalization"), as does Steen Christiansen in an essay called
>>> "Transtextuality,
>>> Paranoia, and Apohenia." I'm sure there are more - there should be, at any
>>> rate, since
>>> the similarities between PR and Lot 49, and between Oedipa and Cayce, are
>>> numerous.
>>> There are also a couple of overt Pynchon references in PR.
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