BE images

[Joseph Tracy]

yes to pear trees
 liked the hipspanic party and the scene on the boat in the landfill afterward
the deep web stuff, which I didn't buy , but was classic P underground world



On Oct 1, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> eidetically thinking, one way that potently always lodges in my mind -
> such as it is - after reading, including & especially this author's
> work, is the images that remain, such as
> 
> pear trees
> 
> maxine watching the kids leave for school on their own
> 
> the archer in deep archer -- Sagittarian influence mayhap
> 
> the person (or entity) at the bottom of the stairs
> 
> the rachel wig giving way to the lara croft wig (segued in my mind
> over to the final scene of friends when they give up the rent
> controlled apartment that belonged to ross & rachel's grandma, like
> ross leaving the key somewhere or something)(you ask me, joey shoulda
> bought the building and developed into a rounded character, instead of
> giving the 6 of them a million an episode or whatever, give them 900k
> instead and have a few more characters on an ongoing basis (Seinfeld
> too)) (model it after a soap opera, a big motif anyway as that was his
> job, eh?) (bring elliott gould in more often, for one thing)(a-and the
> Friends episodes after 9-11 wow, remember those? the weird piano bar
> story arc?) but anyway...
> 
> those few -- anybody get any other potent eidetic takeaways? -- are
> compelling enough for me to feel like there's enough material around
> them to be worth unpacking at leisure
> 
> tryna think (but nothing happens) of the magical realism in this book,
> voila it is that nose thing, right?  so i suppose that'd be another
> image, or at least a clickable spot
> 
> john barth did a lot with computer references for instance in _Coming
> Soon!!!_ and perhaps there is a traceable influence -- i for one think
> barth an influence -- like trading eights or something -- on or with
> TRP although i'm not ready with chapter and verse to prove it
> 
> & i suppose i ought to quote William Gibson who said somewhere about
> 9-11 that it changed everything
> (although i keep thinking of mr natural saying "It was ever thus")
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