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

[ish mailian]

 peterthooper at juno.com  wrote:
>--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?

Yeah, good points. The Guardian piece uses the common and simple
argument that in the Land of the Exceptional Americans, kids are
supposed to move up the economic ladder to a higher rung than the one
their parents climbed to and that the fact that this isn't happening
is evidence of the failure of the economic model (capitalism
...neo...). The culture of hustle, the Benjamin Franklin, Pete Rose
kinda hustle, the Gatsby hustle without the crime, the protestant work
ethic American rugged individualism libertarian spirit and the like,
these are exhausted narratives, narratives that, irrespective of their
truth or grounds on the ground are no longer useful because people
stopped believing in them, or more people, especially and critically,
younger people, don't believe or even like this narrative. Zoyd and
Hector still do. Zoyd is a perfect pragmatist. He works what works and
what makes sense. But when he wakes up in 1984, kinda like Bob Dylan
and Rip Van winkle, the world is not the old world yet, but a stage he
can't set or strut his hour on. He's pulled and pushed, nudged and
nerved, egged on and baited and switched and free will is, if not
over-determined by the ne-normal narrative, determined.

Dylan Sez, (1985) Infidels

Democracy don't rule the world
You'd better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid
>From Broadway to the Milky Way
That's a lot of territory indeed
And a man's gonna do what he has to do
When he's got a hungry mouth to feed.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.


>
> 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!
>
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