Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[Mark Kohut]

And MOBY DICK sold 50 copies its first year.
They, the public, wanted his exotic 'adventure' novels, like TYPEE & MARDI. 

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On Aug 3, 2014, at 9:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> "So, where is Horst?"
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Too many notes and not really funny.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> -
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>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>-
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