Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[alice malice]

It seems an inconsistency to assert unconditional democracy in all
things, and yet confess a dislike to all mankind -- in the mass. But
not so. -- But it's an endless sermon, -- no more of it. I began by
saying that the reason I have not been to Lenox is this, -- in the
evening I feel completely done up, as the phrase is, and incapable of
the long jolting to get to your house and back. In a week or so, I go
to New York, to bury myself in a third-story room, and work and slave
on my "Whale" while it is driving through the press. That is the only
way I can finish it now, -- I am so pulled hither and thither by
circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood
in which a man ought always to compose, -- that, I fear, can seldom be
mine. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in
upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me,
-- I shall at last be worn out and perish, like an old nutmeg-grater,
grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the
nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, -- it will
not pay.

LETTER TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, JUNE [1?] 1851

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:42 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> He writes about the Sloth of his profession, how it jams up against
> all that productivity gain from technologies and the like ( Sloth and
> Luddite essays), and, if we can take some autobiographical themes from
> his AGTD & M&D Co., well, his interest the role of the story teller,
> of the person who would make a living with stories, often clashes with
> the financial and market forces, some of the quite close to home, that
> make life for a man of letters next to impossible.
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:35 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's sad about it? I don't understand. The video hooks them, they
>> read BE. The muted horn is like, I don't know, 50 years old and,
>> well...chalk on the sidewalk is all hipster and whatever but it
>> wouldn't hook anybody who wasn't gonna get hooked. BE and IV are books
>> that can pay for the financial disaster that a work of art, something
>> like Against the Day, often is. Or an would be, or almost work of art,
>> like Vineland is. OK, it's Pynchon and he has it better than so many
>> artists cause he's got great work out there and money and success and
>> so on, but still, he's not about to Melville himself into some obscure
>> corner of Manhattan.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> It's sad that anyone thinks that the best way to get people to read Pynchon is to hook them in with a video. The best form of advertising would be to hire some kids to chalk-scrawl on walls and sidewalks the muted horn image with the subscript: B.L.E.E.D.I.N.G. E.D.G.E.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>>>>Sent: Aug 3, 2014 10:45 AM
>>>>To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>>Cc: Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>>Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market
>>>>
>>>>Terrible. TERRIBLE.
>>>>
>>>>But asking publishers to make A-grade movie trailers on any novel's
>>>>marketing budget is equally terrible.
>>>>
>>>>In the 90s you had your Baudrillards and Delillos forecasting that
>>>>shit like this would replace the work itself. Maybe it's a saving
>>>>grace that that they can't afford to. Pynchon's writing is hardly
>>>>pro-advertising.
>>>>
>>>>But f--k, how hard is it to sit through either the German or American videos?
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Not as terrible as the one set in New York, featuring (I think) his son.
>>>>> THAT was terrible, in a similar but worse way.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe you need to be German to get it. That was terrible
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>>>>>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EDo38geLgo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "So, where is Horst?"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Too many notes and not really funny.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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