Gravity's Audio

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Not being belligerent, just curious: which parts of IV are shockingly good? And, hey, no one has to agree or disagree. There are no right answers here, folks!

LK
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>From: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 25, 2014 11:49 AM
>To: Laura Kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Gravity's Audio
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>I don't understand the hate Bleeding Edge got (okay, the sex scenes
>are awful, but still).
>
>I mean, it's a lot better than Inherent Vice was, and it's some kind
>of remarkable when you consider that it was written by a dude in his
>70's. I'd even go so far as to say there are parts of it - long, huge
>swaths of it - that are shockingly good.
>
>Jerky
>
>On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:35 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I agree with everything you've said here. Hell, I'd settle for an essay or op-ed piece by Pynchon - on Ferguson or anything else he wants to write about.
>>
>> Laura
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>> From: Carvill John
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>> Sent: Nov 25, 2014 11:23 AM
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>> Yeah, it does seem an appropriately dense and complex analysis. It's also pretty good, which ought to serve as a decent corrective for the slew of crap -  a stringing of reviews and blog-posts in nets only God can tell the meshes of - that's bound to accompany the 'Inherent Vice' movie.
>> Personally I don't like Anderson at all, I thought 'The Master' was a pile of crap (albeit a very nicely filmed pile of crap), and I can't stand Joaquin Phoenix. But still, we live in hope.
>> Rather than a worthwhile film based on a Pynchon novel, what I'd really like for Christmas would be an actual Pynchon novel, something to cleanse the palate after the junk food that was 'Bleeding Edge'...
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