Tangential, almost irrelevant, on "Keep Cool, But Care"

[Joe Allonby]

I thought P's slogan was "If they get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about the answers."


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new on this idiot-l, what is P's slogan.  My god, I stumbled upon it
> straightoff.  Slogan is essence.  Cared, looks cool, goes when no
> disasters...
>
> McCormac never said that on Hoprah, come on.  That line is cherished in
> higher circles for its ridiculousness--
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:43:29 -0800
> From: markekohut at yahoo.com
> Subject: Tangential, almost irrelevant, on "Keep Cool, But Care"
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
>
> I was talking elsewhere about Bullitt, the movie. If you know it,
> you may know the line which Cormac McCarthy used on
> the Oprah Show, "You work your side of the street; I'll work
> mine" which anti-boss, loner McQueen says to Wagner.....
>
> You may not know that the scene where the motorcyclist wipes
> out during the great car chase was not scripted...that the motorcyclist
> went past "closed' barriers....and did wipe out....(he was not badly hurt)
>
> If you know that, or when you watch it again, check the shot where McQueen
> stops and looks back.....a spontaneous shot since he had seen the wipeout
> and
> was concerned......(it really is a continuity flaw that he would have
> stopped)
> They left it in the scene and in describing McQueen's
> look then, this came to me:......He looked like he cared, while always
> loooking cool.
> And he started the chase again when he knew things were not disastrous...
>
> So, possible visual embodiment of P's slogan .....at least to me....