Russian V cover

[Mark Thibodeau]

Just chiming in on the awesome cover. I too believe the (18+) label
adds a certain cache.

Love,
YOPJ

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bosch....dreams, nightmares, and early "hysterical realism"....good choice,
> I say.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 13, 2014, at 3:40 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> you can put Bosch on pretty much anything and I'll like it.
>
> good job, Max
>
> rich
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> oh yeah )) let us be thankful that it's not a Petrov-Vodkin. i am, for one
>>
>>
>> On 13.06.2014 18:42, Monte Davis wrote:
>>
>> Botticelli, Bosch -- an easy mistake to make. And both are hard to tell
>> from Bakst, Bilibin, Boucher, Braque and Bruegel.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> thank you, Laura
>>> the image is apparently culled from Bosch, don't ask. they also use his
>>> name in promo materials and in the book annotation. i don't know why.
>>> someone confused him with Botticelli, apparently
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.06.2014 17:59, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations on  getting your cover, Max, stamp or no. It must feel
>>>> great to see your hard work given shape and form. Hard to get a sense of the
>>>> images, but they seem (in this blurred version) oddly 19th century-looking.
>>>> Maybe I need a closer look. I applaud the fact that they're not using a sexy
>>>> image to sell this "18+" book.
>>>>
>>>> Kai, your daughter sounds amazing. My kids were still getting excited
>>>> about Harry Potter in their teens, and made only rare ventures (outside of
>>>> required school reading) into anything more challenging than Jane Austen. I
>>>> read Crime and Punishment at age 13, followed by The Brothers Karamazov and
>>>> War and Peace - but then, I was very shy and had no social life. Books are a
>>>> great refuge at any age.
>>>>
>>>> I can't think of a greater inducement to get teens to read than to stamp
>>>> them with an obscenity warning!
>>>>
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: Jun 13, 2014 9:33 AM
>>>>> To: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, pynchon-l
>>>>> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Russian V cover
>>>>>
>>>>> stand corrected )) "in russia"
>>>>> they still consider it "a difficult read", even older readers.
>>>>> a-and i applaud your daughter, Kai. what i said doesn't mean there
>>>>> aren't any precocious readers at all. i don't think, personally,
>>>>> there's
>>>>> any harm in reading TRP at, say, fifteen (before it might still be
>>>>> kinda
>>>>> boring), but, apparently, not everyone in russia shares this point of
>>>>> view
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13.06.2014 15:20, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the age marker (to be read only after you're 18 years of age; i
>>>>>>
>>>>>> don't have a problem with that for i can't imagine anyone reading TRP
>>>>>> _before_ this age anyway) <
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My daughter, who read "Moby-Dick" in translation before she was ten,
>>>>>> had her first TRP with twelve. Of "Vineland" and "Against the Day" she
>>>>>> read about 150 pages in German. She liked it but realized the limits
>>>>>> of her understanding. Four years later, when she spent a school year
>>>>>> in Estonia, she picked up a copy of the original "Vineland" in a
>>>>>> Tallinn bookstore, started to read and finished it in between days
>>>>>> with enthusiasm. It was her breakthrough to American literature in
>>>>>> original. Now she plans to study English (along with history). This
>>>>>> morning she came back from her last class trip which had led her to
>>>>>> Dublin. And you know what she brought home with her? A copy of
>>>>>> "Ulysses"! Of course we have one in the house, but she wants to have
>>>>>> her own.
>>>>>> It's not bad not to understand everything as a young reader. Me I
>>>>>> profited a lot from my juvenile misreadings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13.06.2014 10:25, Max Nemtsov wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this is how it will look like:
>>>>>>> http://spintongues.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/pearls-after/
>>>>>>> sorry for the poor quality but you've got the idea
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the gray stamp in the lower left corner is the censorship stamp that
>>>>>>> is demanded by the new russian anti-bad-words law: apart from the age
>>>>>>> marker (to be read only after you're 18 years of age; i don't have a
>>>>>>> problem with that for i can't imagine anyone reading TRP _before_
>>>>>>> this age anyway), it should (by law) now contain the inscription
>>>>>>> "Contains Unprintable Abuse" (something like this, for the russian
>>>>>>> state duma, as everyone knows by now, is comprised of clinical idiots
>>>>>>> who can't distinguish between obscene words, explicit lyrics, foul
>>>>>>> language and, well, abuse). to the credit of the publisher, they
>>>>>>> designed the stamp in such manner that it reads rather Yoda-like:
>>>>>>> Abuse Contains (upside down) Unprintable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and yes, it must be sold sealed in cellophane
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from your beleaguered translator
>>>>>>> Mx
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