IVIV Pynchon & TV; Agamben

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 15:27:33 CST 2009


I think Doc may have Pynchon-friendly tendencies but I'm sorta wary
about making that connection--I think Pynchon the man is
Slothrop-scattered throughout many of his characters.

I also just listened to Pynchon's speaking bit put out by Penguin to
promote the book.  I loved it tho the scenes depicted in the video are
from today--would've been nice to have seen historical video from the
era but oh well, maybe that wasn't in the budget or something.

he sorta sounds like Peter Coyote with a two pack a day habit

rich

On 11/3/09, dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> If IV is meant somehow to portray Thomas Pynchon as Doc, then I'd say he's
> the kind of guy who likes to smoke a lot of dope and when stoned will watch
> whatever proves entertaining at the moment on the Tube and could very well
> develop all manner of Tubal addictions, not to mention staring off into the
> nearest body of water and especially the ocean.
>
> I've recently enjoyed reading Agamben's _The Open: Man and Animal_, thanks
> for the book referral, Dave!
>



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