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

[Charles Albert]

There was another Craig line that seemed to echo the opening of
Mason&Dixon, about arcing rocks.

The Pulitzer makes an easy target, and the GR fiasco speaks for itself, but
another finalist that year was Burr - and that is a flat out masterpiece.

I'd also note that Warlock was a finalist....and Oscar Wao a deserving
winner.

love,

cfa

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 4:43 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 Or maybe we should initiate a p-list fatwa, only to be rescinded if he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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