Was Augie March thread, misc.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Fantastic movie - I've seen it three times, so far.

The quote could be a steal/homage, but it's not such an excessively quirky statement that two people couldn't make it independently.  Also, a lot of the words in the script are taken directly from interviews and speeches, so it might come directly from Dylan.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2010 5:48 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Was Augie March thread, misc.
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>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---
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>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"......!!
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>An artist to journalist archetype? An artist v. world urban legend?....
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>Couldn't believe my ears....
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>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.
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>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.
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>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). 
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>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."...
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>Ah, the literary life...
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