Was Augie March thread, misc.

[Mark Kohut]

I just watched, again, Todd Haynes' interpretation of Dylan---early life at least---the movie
"I'm Not There".....and in it there is a scene in which Dylan leaves a limo after being "interviewed"
by an  ultrasmug hit man of a journalist---the guy said to be the inspiration for Mr. Jones in
that song, I believe---

and, as Dylan leaves, upset--being played by the Blanchett character here---he says: "I know
all I need to know about you, you don't know anything about me"......!!

An artist to journalist archetype? An artist v. world urban legend?....

Couldn't believe my ears....

 



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, March 27, 2010 1:43:46 PM
Subject: Was Augie March thread, misc.

I wonder whether TRP liked Bellow's work better than Bellow liked his, as SB's reaction to it has
been brought up on the plist, I believe. I bet he did: P's reading seems very large-hearted, snubbing 
nothing pre-emptively and maybe liking little but trivial, mediocre books, which he probably has long avoided.

Here's a P tangent involving one of P's first great 'getters', Tony Tanner. Tanner's penetrating of P's meanings, style 
and early achievement-- without a net, as it were, is very commendable, as has been said (by Rich, at least, I think). 

Anyway, I heard a story which I later did find in print---which means, if it is not true, it is now institutionalized as truth!----
about Saul and Tony being at the same literary party (In London, I think). Tanner had written on Saul B's work as
well, of course. Someone at the party asked Tanner if he had ever met Saul and he said No. The person decided
to introduce them. He took Tony over to Saul, who when he learned who he was snubbed him with a line like this:
"I know everything I need to know about him; he knows nothing about me."...

Ah, the literary life...