LISS/STEPVR (digest 27/27, 4/25) Lucky 13

[peterthooper at juno.com]

From: ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Zoyd's Hustle & Productivity during Lockdown


Glorifying the hustle is part and parcel of late capitalism, where
dependable employment with benefits and a living wage feel
increasingly out of reach. Many in my generation are far less likely
to experience the kind of financial stability our parents did, despite
working longer hours.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/productivity-in-coronavirus-lockdown


----------------------not everybody's parents were always completely stable either...if they had the money, they mightn't have had the time...or vice versa...or other complicating factors...Dean Moriarty told Sal Paradise, "troubles are just the human name for what God resides in...though Prairie woulda yelled at him for that I think! ... ijs...

Also - It's weird, although the dedication of VL is to his parents, there is no trace of Zoyd's parentage in the book, is there?








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From: Michael Bailey 
Subject: LISS/STEPVR Vehicle survey (5) p333-

76) "little trailer rig" - (p370) each of the lighting implements in
Prairie's dream of her grandfather Hub Gates has its own little trailer rig.
-- from Reef's dream of Webb carrying a candle in AtD, the old gaffer has
grown the parade some

-------------yes, and after dream-Hub says, "Take care of your dead, or they'll take care of you,"
Prairie, with youthful disregard "hurt, furious" "Yeah, or maybe they're just too busy being dead."

 
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:16:03 -0400
From: ish mailian 
Subject: Radio Play Pynchon: He Do the Police in Different Voices


Over the years countless Pynchon inspired projects have impressed but
none more than this Klaus Buhlert project. WOW!

One might think a film, as Gravity's Rainbow is film saturated, more
apt, but I say this is the most ingenious idea around Pynchon to date.

from the opening of GR:
https://readingpynchon.com/gr-radio-play/

We go to California and back to the opening of Zoyd's Dream. The radio
voices are there. Can you hear them? Did you hear them when Pierce did
them? Margo/Oedipa remembered them for us at the beginning of L49.
Radio Voices.

Wouldn't it be cool if the author would do a bit for the Radio PLay,
just voice no bag on his head (The Simpsons). Pynchon, amybe he sounds
like Barney Rubble (The Flintstones).

Now try this: Since Art Carney (Barney is based on Ed Norton (The
Honeymoons character played by Art Carney) is dead, and since Daws
Butler, Mel Blanc, who did Barney Voices are both dead...and so on
...to the Flintstones movies ... so where is this going?

Back to Margo/Oedipa and Pierce Inverarity's voices.

At Drown-Two-Birds.  The Carriers and the Blue Jays. Maybe I can make
them Swim yet.

But first to the Toucan and the Bat. Toss on some Rabbit dust and
listen to voices.


-------------ish mailian, whose input on VL I crave, has called an audible in favor of the radio play, based on Elfriede Jelinek's translation. ish may be able to plow thru those in a week, but hooper is gonna require much longer. 

That's the great thing about the LISS/STEPVR - the topics are out there!

- in a few months, external circumstances may change

- it can become the LISVR and

- if nobody else does before then, I will probably try to reconvene in January 2021. Aloha!