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

[David Morris]

I guess you were his intended audience.

On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> 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......
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:46 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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:
>
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>> 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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