seems latest Mad Men featured TCofL49.....

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/8/2012 11:59 AM, rich wrote:
> I think the episode was supposed to be fall 1966 as most of the
> characters are wearing rain coats not winter coats. Revolver was
> released in late summer of that year.
>
> I think it fits in well with the overarching theme (in the episode and
> in this season tho not tied specifically with the novel) of imminent
> massive cultural shifts (exemplified by Oedipa) that Don is starting
> to have an uncomfortable feeling that he's losing his sense of what's
> happening outside on the street a knowledge which of course feeds into
> what he does and why he's good at it. that doesn't appear to be
> sustainable for him. his young wife was helping but she's off on our
> own thing now which troubles him.


Sounds like an interesting season. I really miss not having cable 
anymore. Been depending on Amazon video on demand to get caught up but 
that takes awhile.

P
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> rich
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> On 5/7/2012 8:45 PM, Tom Beshear wrote:
>>>
>>> We know Pete had ambitions to write -- which never came to much -- for
>>> lots of reasons it makes sense he would read CofL49.
>>
>>
>> It'd have been fun to imagine Lot 49 as a trend setting must read for Mad
>> Avenue, but Tom's explanation is more plausible. Pete doesn't function at
>> the creative end of things at the agency. That's Don's responsibility and
>> his genius ideas just seem to be innate in his own troubled soul.
>>
>> Also, I didn't know, as Rich pointed out, that the time was '67. Thought it
>> was later in the decade when the book had gained more of a mass audience.
>>   But that wouldn't have stopped literary aspirant Pete from knowing about
>> it.
>>
>> Of course, in the final analysis, does it really make sense that the book's
>> presence really had anything to do with story development. More likely the
>> director likes Pynchon, or maybe even the prop man, who lovingly placed the
>> volume into Pete's hand as filming was about to start--possibly relating to
>> the Pyncher's birthday or Pynchon reading day as Paul N. put forward.
>>
>> P
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