#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

[rich]

i'll say it again--i'd rather then be watching the Carol Burnett show
harvey korman is alot funnier than anything in IV

On 10/5/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I think much of what's in the book is meant to be light satire.  Doc's
> parents are straight out of a bad sit-com.
> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Oct 4, 2009 11:55 PM
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>>my opinion is that Pynchon's strengths lay in the melancholic romantic
>>longing for what history we've chosen for ourselves (interspersed w/
>>alot of roadrunner zaniness)
>>IV is all zany and the romantic longing is totally absent leaving much
>>of the novel imho dull
>>sure Doc's parents are nice but I never thought I'd equate anything
>>Pynchon wrote with "niceness"
>>imagine if GR was all Roger Jessica and how quickly tiresome that would get
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>>On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> I don't understand your problem with Elmina and Leo.   Homer and Marge
>>> are
>>> pretty likable, too, in their own way - people have watched them for
>>> years.
>>>    Somehow I can't see the portrayal of the Sportellos as being "the most
>>> innovative experimentation of the author."    Leo and Elmina are a nice
>>> touch - they're homey and it's satirized and it's okay with me.   They
>>> add a
>>>  personal and human dimension to the character of Doc - he's more
>>> grounded
>>> or something.   ("Hippies did not issue forth from the north side of
>>> trees"
>>> - that sort of thing.)
>>>
>>> Bekah
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>>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:01 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
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>>>> John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> While I think Elmina and Leo seem relatively likeable,
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>>>> Despite attack after attack on the traditional and conventional
>>>> character in genre after genre ...despite the zapping of traditional
>>>> and conventional plots, settings, themes, moods, tones, narratives ...
>>>> readers continue to Stencilize with remarkably conservative
>>>> expectations the most innovative experimentation of the author.
>>>>
>>>> The novel is not all that interesting and it's prose style is flat
>>>> and, for most of the read, ugly. Yet, there are reasons to analyze it.
>>>> Fitting it to conventional or traditional modes is not one.
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