BE: Inside Flap

[Fiona Shnapple]

So you got the impersonation.

The better the impersonation the more we like it. If it is too good,
we may begin to doubt that it is an impersonation.

How did he do that?

It's a trick. A copy, a duplicate, a shell game....

P is a fucking Fraud!

A Confidence Man!



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes and I'd say that BE compares very disfavourably with Seinfeld, as
> entertainment and as cultural artifact.
>
> As I pointed out previously, the whole 'guy making bootlegs of movies using
> handheld VHS recorder ironically becomes cult figure despite/due to the
> quality of resultant videos' thing was done much better as a Seinfeld
> episode, way back in 1996:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i45IsSYF-PI
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> Would that BE were half as entertaining as this...
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> ________________________________
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:38:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: BE: Inside Flap
> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> To: lorentzen at hotmail.de
> CC: robinlandseadel at comcast.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
>
>
> Maybe but parodying a parody doesnt seem all that interesting.
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> Agreed that there is a "Seinfeld" dimension in BE,
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