This week in pointless trivia.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Saw the Wizard of Oz in color for the first time as an adult, after a childhood of watching it solely on B&W TV. Although I finally understood the "What kind of horse is that?" line, I was disappointed by the cheesiness the color added. It's hard to believe that 3D would do anything but take that cheesiness to a whole new level. But you're saying that level is a deeper one? Maybe I'll consider it.

Laura


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>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Oct 5, 2013 9:50 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: This week in pointless trivia.
>
>I must confess to having the damnedest time getting into "Bleeding  
>Edge." I'm 1/2 way through, FWIW.
>
>If ever there was a time in which my day to day activities entailed  
>"Hysterical Realism", that would be this week.
>
>Consider "The Wizard of Oz in 3D." Yup, saw it this week and I'm here  
>to tell you we're not in Kansas anymore. What I would give for a  
>Thomas Pynchon critique of the restoration of Victor Fleming's 1939  
>classic. Understand that this film was restored as old masters are  
>restored—at a certain point the restoration exceeds what was possible  
>at the time the artwork was first conceived. I noticed this in  
>particular as the lights reflecting off of various scrying crystals in  
>WoOz have some of the most impressive 3D effects in this restoration,  
>forcing one to gaze into these crystals. Editorial intervention I say,  
>but also resulting in an unexpectedly intense emotional pay-off for  
>the film. Seen it at least 60 times before, mostly on the tube,  
>naturally. But let's face it, this is one of the great American Myths.  
>It functions as a collective myth on some deep level, particularly for  
>the preterite. When my mother was growing up on a chicken ranch in the  
>30's and 40's, this was her myth of escape, her notion of a way out  
>being that of the Hippie. But I digress . . .
>
>As far as I'm concerned, GR gets real interesting just after we read 
>—"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore . . ."
>
>Though, truth to tell, the young Ms. Garland says "I've".
>
>Otherwise, I'm painting Yantras.
>
>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=621798131205781&set=a.262126650506266.79156.100001267982193&type=3&theater
>
>And then there's this puppet show in Washington D.C. that we're all  
>being forced to attend.
>
>BE creeps along at about ten pages a night, blurring into images and  
>dialog from "Castle" that blur into "Seinfeld" episodes as I fall  
>asleep.
>
>"Hey man—when does this shit kick in?"-
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