Surfing my neuropathways
Nobody has ever turned a Pynchon book into a movie before, for the same reason that nobody has managed to cram the New York Philharmonic into a Ford Focus.
Anthony Lane ‘Swinging Seventies,’ The New Yorker, December 15, 2014
If this kind of multiple choice material had been on the SAT, we’d all be wait-listed at Standford. Instead, we got, ‘Medicine is to illness as: 1. law is to anarchy, 2. hunger is to thirst, 3. love is to treason, …’ ‘Gosh, I’m hungry. Where’m I gonna to go to eat when this stupid thing is over?’
Lane gives us an analogy: A Pynchon novel is to 148 minutes of film what the New York Philharmonic is to a small car. Neither Pynchon nor the Philharmonic fits into their respective containers.
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