Tressell, Ellison, Pynchon: Emulsion & Petrifying Liquids or Painting the Roses Red

[Tom Beshear]

Yeah, we're not talking advanced knowledge here. Have you seen a film? Have you looked at photographs? P. gives you enough information in the text to teach you how to read it. And if you read it and get engaged enough, you'll look up technical matters you don't understand well. P.'s not an elitism thing, tho' some try to make literature elitist.
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  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: alice wellintown ; pynchon -l 
  Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:57 AM
  Subject: Re: Tressell, Ellison, Pynchon: Emulsion & Petrifying Liquids or Painting the Roses Red





     Every reader of either knows a film. (Even Paul Schrader, scriptwriter, started seeing them in his late teens. ) Annotations help with
  all specific allusions but the concept of a film, as the concept of theater, matters in 'getting' essential themes of GR. 

  And AtD, where TRP's perspective on photography is also embedded.   



  So, if the young scholar has got it right and not knowing film prevents a reader of GR from an appreciation of the masterpiece,  
  should one simply forgo reading it and read 
  AGTD? 
  AGTD, were it annotated, would need quite few entries on photography and technic, and image making, moving and fixed, 
  but the encyclopedia of movie making, so essential to GR, is not, obviously, so essential to the later and greater masterpiece. 
  That is, at first, 
  we may not appreciate how so much painting and flm and photography, the technic, the chemistry, is essential to both. 


  And, since P writes about labor. His work on painting, photography, and film are all reeled into his labor themes. 











  http://www.academia.edu/2038506/Still_Moving_Against_the_Day_Pynchons_Graphic_Impulse



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