Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

[Monte Davis]

Some alias> "Believe it if you need it,  if you don't, pass it on."

 

JC> "this seems to imply that those of us who don't like the new book just
don't 'get' it"

 

I confess to missing the implication -- but Fight Club will doubtless
flourish without me.  

 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Carvill John
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 8:07 AM
To: Fiona Shnapple; pynchon-l at waste.org; Mark Kohut
Subject: RE: Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

 

<< 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. >>

 

An interesting theory. Not that far removed form saying: "Since we live in a
vacant, trash obsessed culture, the author has presented us with a vacant,
trash-centric text..." To my mind, he would have served us better by writing
us a decent book!

 

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

 

In as much as this seems to imply that those of us who don't like the new
book just don't 'get' it, this does not do much to lend credibility to your
interpretation.

 

 

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