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Author: | levingard [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:55 am ] |
Post subject: | Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Author: | polymathicj [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:11 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Good catch. Speaking as someone who thinks the Beatles are the bees knees, I am dismayed that it slipped by me. |
Author: | dioramaorama [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:12 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
haha! i love this! good catch. something about this book puts my memory centers into overdrive and i find myself flipping back 100 pages to corroborate minor details and coincidents that don't actually mean much and that i probably wouldn't catch in other books. practical knowledge may be being pushed out of the way for all these details... i couldn't unlock my deadbolt yesterday. |
Author: | stephaniejane [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:37 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Amazing!! |
Author: | thinkicanhearyou [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
levingard--that was AWESOME. what's so beautiful about it is the randomness of the catch. i don't feel pressure to catch all the intertextual references DFW makes--how could I?--but there's a flash of the uncanny when you recognize an echo from somewhere else. it's a reminder of something--of where this behemoth novel came from, just tiny little fragments, that become a microscopic, fleeting point of connection. love it. |
Author: | bloatedsack [ Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:29 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Fantastic! Thank you for this. Things like this are why I love this forum. |
Author: | doubtful geste [ Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
wow. and really believable that Hal and Orin, with their weird relationship and tendency to ironically screw with each other verbally would knowingly speak in such quotes. |
Author: | storm [ Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Greg Carlisle mentions this connection in elegant complexity. |
Author: | scottoftheantarctic [ Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hal, Orin & the Beatles |
Am I the only one who noticed this immediately upon reading it? surely other people here have heard Revolver... |
Author: | stephaniejane [ Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:22 am ] |
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