Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[Mark Kohut]

I do not think it is sad that Pynchon seems to think that. Not with the witty---in one case brilliant---fun he has doing them. 

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On 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.
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> Laura
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> -----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.
>>>>> 
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