V-2nd: Come one, come all: get your picture taken with the author

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Teflon, aside from hits non-stick properties, is a fake plastic coating, and therefore, as objectionable as photography to Pynchon.  It no more belongs on a cast-iron pan than Teflon's camera belongs in a bedroom.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 17, 2010 5:48 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: V-2nd: Come one, come all: get your picture taken with the author
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>Now, the first scene in TRP's novels involving a camera. 
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>First and least: see how this scene is echoed over 40 years later
>in AtD in this way.....unclothed, half-unclothed woman around a camera--
>seen from above running from photographer in AtD....
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>Here, "Click, went Teflon's Leica" interrupts intercourse right before the
>Big Moment.....Profane goes after Teflon angrily.
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>I suggest Teflon's voyeurism in this scene--another sick character of The Whole Sick Crew--
> and the AtD scene put down on paper, embody, at one level or two, TRPs satire of 1) invasion of 
>privacy of what should be two people's most intimate act   and, perhaps, generalizing to how
>important privacy is for the good life.          See TRPs life.
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>  2) taking photographs are like avoiding the life
>that is being lived, being a voyeur rather than fully human. 
>"I prefer to watch" as that sexual perversion can be summed up. 
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>Anyone?
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>Why Teflon as his name? Life doesn't stick to him; it sticks to his photographs. I am reminded among other
>things in his novels, of the words in GR about the 'scumblings of time' or suchlike---you can look it up---which
>is a positive in his vision, imho.  
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