Dan references

[Robin Landseadel]

And then there's all that anecdotal stuff flying around the interwebs  
how Pynchon's crazy for Gilligan's Island and the Simpsons. Someone  
with that much attention directed towards popcult must at least have a  
little affection for the stuff.
On Oct 5, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> But is the ten year anachronism owed to Pynchon's lack of sufficient  
> interest? I don't think this is true. In fact, as the novels that  
> followed GR prove, anachrosnism are carefully and deliberately used  
> by the author.
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> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> P.'s apparent errors when it comes to pop culture references have  
> been remarked on often on this List, but my favorite quote  
> concerning them belongs to Edward Mendelson from his essay on GR:
> "Gravity's Rainbow has on occasion been misunderstood as an  
> endorsement of popular culture in preference to "high" culture, but  
> Pynchon is equally insistent on the potential dangers that lie in  
> absorption at either extreme. The popular modes that Pynchon  
> assimilates into his encyclopedia of styles are never modes of  
> liberation from the systems of oppression but are instead a means of  
> oppression and extinguishing. In his references to popular forms,  
> Pynchon incidentally commits historical errors of a kind absent from  
> his allusions to Rossini or Rilke: he is not, for example,  
> sufficiently interested in a film like The Return of Jack Slade to  
> notice that its inclusion in Gravity's Rainbow is a ten-year  
> anachronism. "

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