The bleeding continues...

[Monte Davis]

Hey, Cheech & Chong fans are entitled to their own Pynchon novel.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:40 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Like that "riverunning." More about that, later, wherein I'll refer to
> Chabon's discussing his experience with FW in the NY Review:
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>   https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/07/12/what-make-finnegans-wake/
> (What's It All About?  "It," again)
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>
>  "I give Anderson some slack
> because I think the lameness of IV was inherent before the screenplay was
> written.)"
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> Cute. I don't mind doc taking a backseat to Maxine (He probably doesn't, either- as long as the....oops, forgot what I was thinking...)
>
> jody
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> On Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:07 PM, Monte Davis <
> montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This. Notice that on the last page, Maxine's sons riverrunning off to
> school as they were on the first, the real (or "real") catastrophe is still
> impending:
>
>  "...both of them standing just like this, folded in just this precarious
> light, ready to step out into their peaceable city, still safe from the
> spiders and bots that one day too soon will be coming for it, to claim-jump
> it in the name of the indexed world."
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> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:51 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> And for most people the 9/11 attacks were experienced as Virtual Reality,
>> even on the Upper West Side. In that sense, any work of art depicting the
>> context of the events must, to some extent, challenge and come into
>> competition with the sanctioned "reality." The attacks and aftermath tore a
>> huge- drive a truck through- hole between the virtual and the real. What
>> has come through that hole is still being negotiated and worked out. I'm
>> thinking of Reg and Eric, here, and their "bleeding edge" mobile server
>> rig, as at least a metaphor for a new hybrid reality- as difficult to pin
>> down as a mobile missile launcher
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>> On Thursday, September 13, 2018 1:21 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:06:08 +0000
>> > "jody2.718" jody2.718 at protonmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > One other point: Bleeding Edge is one of Pynchon's
>> > > better works, insufficiently discussed, probably because
>> > > its publication was somewhat overshadowed by the
>> > > expectation of, and finally the release of, the rather
>> > > lame film version of Inherent Vice.
>> >
>> > Agreed. Also the subject matter of the September 11 attacks and its
>> > treatment in the novel might have played a role.
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