Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[David Morris]

Wow.
Thanks.
This sentiment of love/hate of humanity is depth to be plumbed.
A true lover of life with wisdom too.

David Morris

On Sunday, August 3, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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 <javascript:;>>
> >>>>Sent: Aug 3, 2014 10:45 AM
> >>>>To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> >>>>Cc: Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com <javascript:;>>, Kai Frederik
> Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de <javascript:;>>, pynchon -l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>>
> >>>>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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
> <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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>-
> >>>>Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>
> >>> -
> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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