Re: Pynchon’s Book Trailer, and Other Stories from the Week

[Markekohut]

We differ....it is hilariously offhandedly brilliant about his authorial/ real self...."all-seeing eye"....right out of Against the Day and James Wood on narrator consciousness......working the margins re power and hierarchy...." Information flows ...from here to there......
Watch it again.....
A marvelous set piece, a marvelous outtake pure Pynchon joke......

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On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:46 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the trailer's worst flaw is its smugness.  It's an old joke, the Simpson's gag, here dragging on an on, assuming its audience will hang on each poor embellishment (I stopped it at about 1.30 in).  It is really an insult.  Insults can be funny.  This was just stale.
> 
> On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/book-news-pynchon-book-trailer-and-other-stories-from-the-week.html
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