Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

[Robin Landseadel]

We don't have to do anything Fiona—this is Pynchon's worst book.
On Oct 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

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> 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.
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> I am not clear on just what you mean by this. Explain.
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> 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.
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> Mr P has given us another gift of his genius. Beleive it if you need  
> it, if you don't, pass it on.
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> > 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.
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> 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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