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

[David Morris]

I give up.  If I was his intended audience, he failed.

On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> you are his intended audience too....all his audience is....it is a TAKE
> THAT to New Yorkers ( and others) who want High Lit BookTrailers.......
>
> As I suggested.....think about some Pynchon themes, ones you've focused on
> even,....ESP, if I remember rightly, that belief that his satire is toward
> just about everything....
>
> And just add the presumption that BE will satirize,somehow, some New
> Yorkers and
>
> VIOLA.........this Vimeo vid will keep you laughing until Mardi Gras.....
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 7, 2013, at 5:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> 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> 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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