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

[Markekohut]

Ok.....sorry to belabor.....

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 7, 2013, at 5:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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