Portrait of the Artist as an Old Boat

[Danny Weltman]

Pynchon's from Long Island, which isn't too far from Lake George. Maybe he
spent some of his youth boating around the lake?

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:07 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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