[Mark Kohut]

That's what I would have said if I had said it first and as good as this.



--- On Thu, 10/22/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re:
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 9:10 AM
> The movie reviewer-style referencing
> of movies and, perhaps, the used car-sellers referencing of
> cars, add a layer of pop-culture cheesiness
> (Velveetification?)to the story.  We're not getting the
> simple view of the omniscient narrator, we're getting the
> view filtered through a lens clouded by crappy pop
> culture.  The TV parodies are part of this. 
> Pynchon is using a filter of crappy culture, like fog moving
> in, to show us why the budding idealism of the 60s went
> under.
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 
> >
> >Clement Levy writes: 
> >Cars are quite an issue in IV, maybe, because they're
> an issue in LA area. We may have another word about it.
> >
> >I DO have another word about it. P and the cars in IV
> are noticed more (and described differently) than most
> realist writers, other detective novel writers do. First,
> noticed all over the place in the prose. So many did not ALL
> have to be seen, right? 
> >
> >But most, they are described by make, model and
> year.....Now who else getting down cars in LA describes them
> this way just about every time?  
> >Most writers might say 'yellow chevy'; such-and-such
> Camaro.........
> >There is some kind of 'lovingness' [my word. find a
> better.] goin' on in the descriptions, yes? 
> >
> >It reminds me of the way he, uniquely it seems,
> indicates so many movies with the date. For some reason he
> wants us to 'get' the whole NAME, Year of a car.  That
> that 'defines' it or something?
> >
> >
> >      
> >
> 
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