New Bleeding Edge book trailer

[lee momonin]

this video made me feeling sad....


On 4 September 2013 21:44, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This trailer reminded me, encapsulated, of some of the best plist
> conversations where we tried to determine WHERE the satire
> cut.......perhaps to get to where we said EVERYWHERE ( is where it cut).
> Everything.
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> Here: this character is not from the book. ( unlike P narrating Inherent
> Vice ) He wears a T--shirt saying he IS Tom Pynchon, we know he isn't yet
> he says he is like " an all-seeing eye"---standard words to describe an
> omniscient or Semi-omniscient narrator...yet, he knows Maxine but " doesn't
> know how it [the story] ends"....he is so full of supposed self-awareness,
> hip knowingness ( way overdone ala TRP, but I still laughed) .......
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> One might say it risks anti-Semitism as it--the narrator--proclaims
> Semitic self-love....which to me
> shows it isn't.......shows the evisceration of class....the Upper West
> Side powerful....
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> What about that ' I deal with power hierarchies from the margins' line?...
> Articulating one of TRP's
> BIG themes [power & hierarcy]....from the margins [ where the preterites
> live?]
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> Differ with me. Argue. Comment.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 4, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> http://vimeo.com/73716114
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