Pynchon-l Digest, Vol 92, Issue 11

[Xander Dominguez]

I would agree. Though I look forward to the next Pynchon novel, I don’t
want to raise my expectations so high that I am disapointed.

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> From: J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
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> Subject: Pynchon heresy
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> To be honest I find myself looking forward more to  One Battle After
> Another  than to the new Pynchon novel. I hope I am wrong. I really did
> like PTA?s Inherent Vice; not so much as an interpretation of the novel,
> but more in the way PTA gets  the surreal hilarity and intensity of Pynchon
> on film.
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> From: Michael Lee Bailey <michaelleebailey at pm.me>
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> De gustibus, etc.
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> Me, I might give OBAA a miss, much as I like Sean Penn - I picture Zoyd
> much younger - and changing his name to Lt Col Lockjaw?
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> It sounds like it?s going to be a testosterone-charged action-adventure
> which, must admit, I like as much as the next person, but Zoyd?s a
> musician, a person of peace, and the revolutionary shtuff was all DL &
> Frenesi. Girlie with a gun! Kunoichi attentives! Leaving out the best parts!
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> Too mucho macho, sausage-fest (which again, nothing against that per se)
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> Plus, the book is still always better than the movie
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> PTA heresy: I hated There Will Be Blood so much (right down there with
> Godfather & Glengarry Glen Ross - it just sucked?no fun at all?no simpatico
> characters?no relatable romance?no humor?no witty dialogue?just Adfus) that
> the only other of his films I?ve seen is IV which I admit was pretty good
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> If OBAA is Vineland PTAified so much they couldn?t even keep the
> title?meh? but there is a movie premiering Sept 26 I?m looking forward to:
> Gabby?s Dollhouse, with Kirsten Wiig, Gloria Estefan, and cats both live
> and animated.
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> Takes all kinds to make a world - hope those who see OBAA enjoy it
> (including, maybe, me, eventually, after watching Gabby?s Dollhouse,
> Fantastic Four, some Bollywood & Telugu films, and maybe Superman again -
> the new Superman is pretty great, with Nathan Filion as Green Lantern - got
> a Regal pass, 25$ a month for unlimited movies)
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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM, J Tracy <[brook7 at sover.net](mailto:On
> Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM, J Tracy <<a href=)> wrote:
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> > To be honest I find myself looking forward more to One Battle After
> Another than to the new Pynchon novel. I hope I am wrong. I really did like
> PTA?s Inherent Vice; not so much as an interpretation of the novel, but
> more in the way PTA gets the surreal hilarity and intensity of Pynchon on
> film.
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> From: Michael Lee Bailey <michaelleebailey at pm.me>
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> > - got a Regal pass, 25$ a month for unlimited
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> If you go to a weekday matinee you?ll probably have the theater to
> yourself, look at your phone, laugh out loud, talk to the characters if
> you?re so inclined?
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