death of a salesman Worthington

[Fiona Shnapple]

Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho? The reincarnation of crazy Eddie
or dot com ing the con all over again.


http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-up-close-crazy-eddie-still-s-ne-back-but-online.html



On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> "Worthington himself became a figurehead for the omnipresence of
> advertising in modern life; for some, he personified the new, invasive
> capitalism of the television era. The ads always began with the same hasty
> introduction—“Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog Spot!”—as though he was
> always there, hiding behind the curtain of commercial breaks, waiting to
> ambush us and sell, sell, sell. When Worthington died last month, at
> ninety-two, it wasn’t shocking because it was sudden but rather because,
> for the great majority of Californians, Worthington wasn’t someone who
> appeared on television—he was a character who seemed to live inside
> television."
>
> "In a similar vein as Klepper, Brian McHale states that "the very world of
> Vineland, the outside 'real world' existing independently of any particular
> character's consciousness of it, is itself modeled on TV."(123) He
> perceives that the world of Vineland is partitioned into various "regions"
> and associated with certain televisual genres which again are grouped
> around certain characters in the novel. So whenever Zoyd Wheeler is the
> center of the fictional world, this world seems to function according to
> sitcom-logic, Brock Vond transforms everything around him into a cop-show,
> and Frenesi and Flash live under soap opera circumstances. Each genre-world
> functions with a different set of psychological, sometimes even physical
> laws and norms. McHale's metaphor for the rapid and often imperceptible
> switching between these worlds is zapping."
>
> Part 3 of 4 "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" 1970<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEzdmcbsU_U>
>
>
>  On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
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>> http://www.theparisreview.org/**blog/2013/10/09/death-of-a-**salesman/<http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/09/death-of-a-salesman/>
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>>> http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/**Image-Fiction/chapter_4.1.1.**html<http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.1.1.html>
>>>
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