death of a salesman Worthington

[Curtis Rawling-Endicott]

Good point, and I was kind of short-handing with "stoney". Obviously
it is so much more than that. THC being a tool, but not primary and
certainly no replacement for hard work hewing those connections and,
as you say, a deep knowledge of post-McLuhan impact of media
especially advertising/propaganda.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Pynchon and the Firesign Theater share so many traits. You mention stoney
> humor, that's really not quite right. They share a time and a place—Los
> Angeles, transition from the sixties to the seventies. They are both very
> paranoid. They are both hyperconscious of the Tube and the potential perils
> of the computer. The scene of "Television Communion" in "Don't Crush That
> Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers" really belongs is some Pynchon novel, Vineland
> probably. While, as with Pynchon's novels, one is led to the impression that
> the aesthetic results were derived through prolonged application of THC,
> closer examination displays a shrewd knowledge of forms of Propaganda deemed
> acceptable by the state and its citizens and the long term effects of that
> propaganda on those citizens, with both artistic entities somehow managing
> to make a "telegenic" or "phonogenic" impression anyway:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv041-dAnqs
>
> If you search for the Firesign Theater on youtube, you will find many of
> their albums have been posted by someone with the nom-de-net of 01 pynchon.
>
> I figured the only reason "Nick Danger, Third Eye wasn't name-checked in
> Inherent Vice is that the reference to that world only slightly askew from
> Doc Sportello's would be regarded as too obvious.
>
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Curtis Rawling-Endicott wrote:
>
>> Nice, I kind of thought this too but am never sure chicken/egg on
>> SoCal stoney humor, having come to the Firesign in latter days.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Robin Landseadel
>> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have long assumed that Pynchon's spot-on Parodies of Cal were inspired
>>> by
>>> the Firesign Theater's "Jack Poet" ads, guerrilla TV at its finest:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2431JIAQQ
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3QaGV0sY0I
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CHO5YsIzQ
>>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/10/09/death-of-a-salesman/
>>>
>>> On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Fiona Shnapple wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.1.1.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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