Portrait of the Artist as an Old Boat

[John Bailey]

Thanks for this - I wish readers would give Bleeding Edge the scrutiny
generously afforded his other work. The veneer of social comedy/tech
thriller seems to have buffed off most people's willingness to go for
the deep readings he usually requires. Then again I tried to plumb for
profounder depths in Inherent Vice and failed (cultural/age factors)
so I guess he outwits us all in different ways.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> Reading Bleeding Edge for the third time - now in the translation of Dirk
> van Gunsteren, who, like in his translation of Vineland, really manages to
> give Pynchon's voice a German tongue - , I came across something which
> escaped my attention during the former reads.
>
> "Sid introduces them. 'It's a 1937 Gar Wood, 200 horses, shakedown cruises
> on Lake George, honorable history of outrunning pursuit at every level ...'"
> (p. 165)
>
> Pynchon was born in 1937, and while I'm still meditating upon what
> "shakedown cruises on Lake George" may stand for, the "honorable history of
> outrunning pursuit at every level" is perfectly clear to me. By avoiding the
> public Pynchon shook off fanboys & fangirls, journalists & scholars, beggars
> & kings.
>
> https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch
>
> I love Bleeding Edge for its sense of NOW.
>
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