Pynchon surfing with dolphins (was: Re: The review I just read in my paper)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

http://www.yourwavepics.com/keyword/Mark%20Pynchon/

OK, it's not our Pynchon, yet still ...

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"Die stolzen Jünglinge, die kühnen!
Sie legten froh dem Tiger Fesseln an,
Sie bändigten, von staunenden Delphinen
Umtanzt, den königlichen Ozean."

Hölderlin: Dem Genius der Kühnheit


On 06.10.2014 22:53, David Morris wrote:
> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tulsi-gabbard-veterans-hearing-surfing
>
> Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) missed a hearing on the Veterans Affairs 
> crisis because she was surfing with Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody, 
> according to Honolulu Civil Beat 
> <http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/10/gabbard-missed-veterans-hearing-to-surf-waikiki/?cbk=542f5bcc76163>.
>
> Gabbard's office had initially told Civil Beat that she missed a 
> Senate field hearing on veterans chaired by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) 
> because she was at another hearing. But more recently Gabbard's office 
> said that she was stuck with Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody who was 
> doing areport 
> <http://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-surf-video-042620249.html> on her 
> surfing in Waikiki. Gabbard, according to Civil Beat, had thought she 
> would be able to make the hearing but she ran out of time.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Ian Livingston 
> <igrlivingston at gmail.com <mailto:igrlivingston at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Um, why should there be surfing? Here in CA, surfing has always
>     been minority sport, one we glimpse occasionally in passing a
>     beach where surfing is popular. Surf culture is more prevalent,
>     and that is addressed in the novel. If surf culture, i.e., stoners
>     shredding on the guitar, etc, is absent from the film, that would
>     be cause for alarm.
>
>
>     2014-10-06 2:10 GMT-07:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>     <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>>:
>
>
>         Patrick Bahners: Glücksritter und Tagediebe auf Gangsterjagd
>         (on page 11 of today's FAZ)
>
>         Two interesting points in this critique:
>
>         Bahners calls it a "big disappointment" that PTA couldn't find
>         a "film-stylistic equivalent for the oceanic topography of the
>         novel". What he means - "(d)as Leitmotiv des Surfens wird
>         überhaupt nicht ins Bild gesetzt" - is that the movie has no
>         surfing. Is this true? If so, that's a legitimate point of
>         criticism, imo.
>
>         The second objection to Anderson's adaptation is that it
>         leaves out the theme of total surveillance and that this - I'm
>         not sure Bahners is serious here - could be the starting point
>         for conspiracy theories. Well, I don't know about the
>         influence the NSA or similar organizations have on movie
>         productions, but I thought the P-list might enjoy the
>         speculation ...
>
>         "Im Roman erkennt Sportello die Muster im roten Fadengewirr,
>         weil er Zugriff auf eine Frühform des Internets erhält, ein
>         Datennetzwerk der Sicherheitsbehörden mit Knotenpunkten in den
>         Universitäten. Die entgrenzte Kombinatorik, das
>         lebensphilosophische Projekt der Gegenkultur, überlebt
>         ironischerweise als geheimes Regierungsprogramm. (...) Dass
>         die von Pynchon 2009 ins Auge gefasste Totalüberwachung in der
>         Verfilmung von 2014 entfallen ist, ergibt einen unnatürlichen
>         Mangel [- the German title of IV is 'Natürliche Mängel'.kfl],
>         der Ausgangspunkt für Verschwörungstheorien sein könnte. Doch
>         wenn das zutreffen sollte, stünde das mit Sicherheit nicht in
>         der Zeitung."
>
>
>         -
>         Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
>
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