'Knives Out' director Rian Johnson explains Daniel Craig's 'Gravity's Rainbow' joke

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, I am as I also tell him this:

I will drop the writer a note that No, the novel was not divisive among the
judges.......All three were unanimous that it should
get the Pulitzer that year...led by an admittedly baffled by it Benjamin De
Mott, decent reader, who confessed he couldn't ge tit but knew it was
simply beyond him...and the best of the year.

It was the Board of Trustees at that fine, fine forward thinking
university, Columbia U [ decades later in Against the Day TRP has
Middlebrow U] who could not
tolerate its 'obscenity' it's vulgarity. Laughable these days and many
earlier ones.
The Establishment is ever thus.

They are often the reason that Wm Gass was right about the "Pulitzer":  It
takes dead aim at mediocrity and seldom misses...

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 4:36 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Anyone going to challenge Dan Gentile for describing GR as pretentious?
>
> Or maybe we should initiate a p-list fatwa, only to be rescinded if he
> can come up with those extra 20 pages.
>
> cheers
> Mike
>
> On 07/12/2019 18:05, Heikkpagesi R wrote:
> >
> https://m.sfgate.com/movies/article/Knives-Out-Rian-Johnson-Gravitys-Rainbow-14885872.php
> >
> > “It seems like this big challenging thing, but it's actually the most
> > entertaining book that's ever been written. And it's a book where you
> will
> > experience literally every possible emotion.”
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