BE #1 Amazon Best Seller in "Historical Mystery"

[Keith Davis]

Great line: By the time you look at something, it's already history...
and so it goes...


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Keith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ou9ArDluBg
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Per my earlier post, Penguin Press probably did the categorization and
> > they---the editor or marketing person--might have asked the Pynchons
> because
> > they are the Pynchons....
> >
> > When I read " set in the early years of the Internet" in the
> description, I
> > thought that was Pynchon talking......#just guessing.
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Sep 15, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > By the time we become aware that something has happened, it's already
> past.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I think you nailed it with your last sentence, Bekah. Soon "retro"
> >> will mean wearing the clothes you didn't take off last night because
> >> you were too drunk. Maybe we're reaching the point at which the
> >> universe is finished expanding and starts to contract again, reversing
> >> time and making "history" a reference to the future.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >> > I have a small issue with the "historical" part of the genre
> >> > description.  How "historical" can 2001 be?  Pynchon and the readers
> of BE
> >> > were all likely adults at the time and as a result have a personal
> >> > involvement - not an historical one.   Precious few books are written
> about
> >> > the times we actually live in - they're usually set at least 3 or 4
> years
> >> > prior often up to 10 or so.  (Suite Francois was very surprising and
> Pattern
> >> > Recognition was similar in its chronological proximity of setting -
> so to
> >> > speak).
> >> >
> >> > What with the speed of technology (we're now exploring the real
> "outer"
> >> > space) I suppose history is anything that happened yesterday?
> >> >
> >> > Bekah
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sep 15, 2013, at 6:46 AM, alice wellintown
> >> > <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I say give the Amazon folk credit, they nailed it. They couldn't call
> >> >> it a Romance, or those academinc terms, postmodern, high modern, or
> as
> >> >> Cowart does, roman fleuve, or hysterical...metafiction... so I like
> >> >> it.
> >> >>
> >> >> The American Mystery (Tanner).
> >> >>
> >> >> In this wonderful little book, Tanner, from the first essay on
> >> >> Emerson, which takes up this issue of Sloth and the Author, of
> Anarchy
> >> >> and Work, we see how Pynchon fits into this American Mystery
> >> >> tradition, again, not so Dieckensian as has been argued, nothing that
> >> >> European, but a studied son of the American Mystery.
> >> >>
> >> >> The mystery softens the blunt instrument that is anything that would
> >> >> work on 9-11 with a bleeding political edge.
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > www.innergroovemusic.com
>



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