Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

[Fiona Shnapple]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>wrote:

> >I suspect that readers don't want the most important double that P has
> to offer in BE: parody, an allusive polemical double.
>
> I am not clear on just what you mean by this. Explain.
>


In BE, P's parody of his and our preoccupation with rich media culture is a
double in the sense that P saturates the prose, the dialogue, the narrative
with rich media culture to sit us down on the Simpson's couch so we can see
ourselves watching ourselves transmogrified into toons, into tabloid talk,
into real TV personalities, into video game avatars, etc., into a
citizenship that has no privacy, no more than the Kardashians, because we
don't want it. We wnt our MTV, we want to go viral on Youtube doing
something so Twerky we are made into a celebrity. What's wrong with being
citizens, protecting ou neighbors, our grandparents, parents and children,
our privacy? But this only step one. The creative use of rich media to
parody rich media is step two. So P is not out to write abook that simply
says rich media is damageing to our liberty, to our greater culture. That's
too obvious, too much an old man's lament and screed. Co-opt it! That's
what he's done here. And it's so funny we need to laugh at it. And
laughter, along with the lament for what is wasted in poor medai land, is a
good tonic.

Mr P has given us another gift of his genius. Beleive it if you need it, if
you don't, pass it on.



>
> > Anyways, I' a bit sad to see some of my fewllow new yorkersw attack the
> book as offensive to ethnic groups or whatever. Sad for them, not P. Like,
> go watch the Simpsons, dudes.
>
> You should not assume that, just because you are a Pynchon fan, anybody
> who doesn't enjoy the new book is wrong. Remember: those people are Pynchon
> fans too, that's why they're on this list.
>
>
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