NP but P "These are the conversations one gets into as a Pynchon fanatic"

[Allan Balliett]

from Death and Taxes online magazine

http://tinyurl.com/abxytrf

"This film made its way into my consciousness at a party in the Hollywood
hills a few years. I was selling some shit book of poetry to a rag-tag
collection film insiders. One of the perks of this job is that I would run
these off-site events, but be free to read and write to keep my mind
occupied. At the time I was reading Thomas Pynchon’s V. A short guy of baby
boomer age comes up to me and we start chatting about Pynchon. Naturally it
tends toward his masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow (which is quite readable and
mind-bending, folks). I made the argument that Terry Gilliam could adapt
it, provided it were done as series of four films (for the book’s four
sections), or maybe even as an HBO miniseries. Madness, I know. But one can
dream. I also noted that I thought Dr. Strangelove must have have had some
effect on Pynchon’s creation of the Schwartzgerat rocket. My new friend
didn’t disagree. However, he thought that Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger’s A Matter of Life & Death (released in the US as Stairway to
Heaven), had to have been influential in writing Gravity’s Rainbow. He
mentioned the opening scene and said, “Watch the movie. But pay attention
to that opening scene.” These are the conversations one gets into as a
Pynchon fanatic."
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