New pad?

[Richard Ryan]

Is PTA in fact planning a production of Vineland. perhaps the most
underrated of TP's works? Sorry if this is old news - I was locked out of
the group for like, a year - for technical reasons which are still unclear
to me.  Someone's got it in for me - they're planting stories in the
presssssss.

Two off-the-cuff comments:

- It always struck me that Vineland would might make an excellent
Japanimation/Anime-style production.

- All in favor of a group read of COL49.  Curious to see if it holds up.

Regards,
R-Squared


On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 11:58 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Still up for that CoL 49 revisit myself despite Pynchon’s reservation on
> this most well known of his novels, though that may be changing with the
> movies coming out. I enjoy looking in on the Moby Dick and to a lesser
> degree the SL discussions, but am very busy trying to redo my website and
> learn more about web code. I ‘ve gotten pretty good at 25 year old code
> conventions( most are still around and do work in their own way). Have not
> plunged into the streamlined modern web code but it may be inevitable if I
> want a space in that world.
>
> I may be wrong about CoL49 as the most read Pynchon. Perhaps outside of
> academia there is a growing readership for the novels becoming movies. Will
> PT Anderson do Bleeding Edge next after Vineland? The genius of TP is
> clearly hard for him to resist, and he likes the comic strain of these
> later works. Will people read Vineland ahead of the movie?
> Any information on that stuff , Mark, anyone?
>
> As to more cheerful conclusions, I am beginning to wonder if God or
> humanity or coyote doing standup in the 7th dimension  is really into the
> darkest of dark comedy: Dr. Strangelove,  Gravity’s Rainbow, Vonnegut at
> his darkest, The final triumph of Captain Hook. But if the idea is to die
> laughing, who is doing the laughing?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 10, 2024, at 4:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would do a CoL49 group reread. I will be presenting a lifelong learning
> > lunch lecture locally this fall.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM Michael Bailey <
> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I’m inclined to veer off into a hiatus on SLPAD - not that “Entropy” is
> too
> >> dark, I think it might even be interpretable as kind of funny with an
> >> affirmation of sorts hidden amongst the dark despair (ie, I haven’t
> >> relinquished my ur-position on depressing fiction which is, “hey, you’re
> >> making it up, how hard would it be to give us a happy ending, eh?” - but
> >> I’m learning to find something to like about less-than-cheery stories
> >> anyway)
> >>
> >> Last night I unearthed a post from way back, wherein JT expressed an
> >> interest in an expedition up the slopes of CoL48 & this spring might be
> a
> >> fun time for some of that.
> >>
> >> If anyone is interested in a group read we could do a linear,
> >> chunk-assigning type of one.
> >>
> >> Or some variation on that.
> >>
> >> Or a shaggy-dog kind of approach just beaming out of the lease-breaking
> >> party and into Oedipa’s kitchen (which I will probably start Monday if
> >> nobody latches onto a group action by then)(but could happily
> transition to
> >> something more organized at any point)
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers and may spring fever be a pleasant experience for us folks this
> >> year: 40 zillion plants can’t be wrong!
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