Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

[Carvill John]

Monte
The whole line I was responding to was:
> Mr P has given us another gift of his genius. Beleive it if you need it, if you don't, pass it on. 
I may be wrong, but what I inferred from this was that [some alias] was suggesting that Pynchon had cast yet another pearl in our direction, and that those of us who didn't appreciate it were, so to speak, swine.
CheersJohn


From: montedavis at verizon.net
To: johncarvill at hotmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 08:21:30 -0400

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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