V-2nd: 'reality' vs mediation. P.S.

[Mark Kohut]

And, as I think belatedly, there is all the stuff on 
Recognitions-like authentic vs. second-hand.....the tourist
chapter(s)...........Stencil's very NAME......and hidden
'reality"?..........

Even in this chapter Pat Boone, masterful 'cover' singer of
originals......................



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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, June 17, 2010 11:53:53 AM
Subject: V-2nd: 'reality' vs mediation

Email problems have deleted the new poster's email asking 
about mediation vs. the unmediated in V.....thank you and welcome
new plist poster.....

I cite this, p. 7: "American movies had given them stereotypes
all, all except Paolo Maijstral"----which last part should
have been in my Paolo post..........

But, P throws out mediation early here.......

I want to give my admittedly old school response.....very aware
now that P challenged all my old school responses [which has
to be one reason I counldn't finish, much less get, V. on my first reading].

V. ,chapter one, is slapstick comedy...What came to be labelled 'black humor' at the time---
an anthology of which included another section of V. was soon published and all examples are 
like some other books we've mentioned..

not even attempting the 'realism"ness of writers like Bellow, early Roth, Updike
and others of P's time.....

Therefore, How mediated or unmediated might P's portrayals of The Beats is, it is not
realistic fiction nor was meant to be....menippean satire (As Alice would remind us) 

So, how much a presentation of a mediated reality.....................is an intersting and
open question for discussion.....esp, as I've just noticed, Paola doesn't see in stereotype.