THOMAS PYNCHON National Book Award 1973

Acceptance Speech Pynchon Acting

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  Film & Animation

[dzangreazul]

Pynchon is GOD! Or at least writes like he is.

[budgiegeorge50]

How many people are Pynchon fans and Residents fans?

[Alexei Aneychik]

Exemplorum gratiis: With the thunder-words of FW one may look up the word fragments that don't leap instantly to mind, riffle (or rifle) through etymologies and mythologies and then subsequently read it in the now familiar context, perhaps even after having analysed the entire book cover-to-cover a few times; one may also just do the last part and think of it as an oneirically tinged, chromatic, perhaps dodeca(co)phonic, musical composition.

[Alexei Aneychik]

I enjoyed the author's excited style of thought (pun intended).

Much like with, say, 'Finnegans Wake', there are many ways that one can read it, though the language is a tad less fun.

If you wish to persevere I simply recommend experimenting until you find an enjoyable method through trial and error or calculation as opposed to that which may come most naturally to you.

[goodvibesallround]

That's not a word.

[Alexei Aneychik]

Arreptitiously

[goodvibesallround]

Gravity's Rainbow was a mindfuck for me? How did you get through it?

[SylvanaForrester]

Irwin Corey's acceptance speech on behalf of Pynchon is edited down in this clip. It was actually a little longer, a bit stranger, somewhat rambling and incoherent and it included a streaker running across the stage. I wonder if there is any available footage from the speech itself. So far I haven't been able to find it on YouTube. Can anyone make a suggestion or add a link? Thanks.

[stellaraid44]

george plimpton, good will hunting

[Travis Todd]

I like how one of the loaded suggestions is "Dark Ufo - Video Clip." Very Pynchonian.

[dantean]

The Residents! Yayyyy!

[MrBusterfoot]

it sounded pretty uninteresting to me.