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Capable of the most elevated, soaring prose, of cadences that skate the angels’ wings and sound the utmost moral profundities, Pynchon is always ready to degenerate into schoolboy smut, atrocious puns, lewd humour and comic-book chases. IMDBīut when Pynchon won the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974, he sent a comic, Professor Irwin Corey, to accept on his behalf with a speech of unbridled nonsense.ĭoubts about its value are written into the text itself, which lurches wildly between the sublime and the ridiculous, monstrously scrambling its terms. Professor Irwin Corey: ‘unbridled nonsense’. I cannot receive the Nobel Prize as long as Pynchon hasn’t got it! That is against natural laws. It is a joke he hasn’t received the Nobel Prize and I have. When she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek, who had undertaken the mammoth task of translating Gravity’s Rainbow into German, responded: To others – the faithful, the “Counterforce” the book convokes against the cult of death – Pynchon’s postmodern epic is our very own Iliad: the greatest hymn against war since Homer. To many – including the Pulitzer Prize Board, who called the book “unreadable”, “turgid”, “overwritten” and “obscene” – such comparisons are a bad joke.

On that august plane, Thomas Pynchon’s classic, 50 years old today, is a mere infant in the select company of Tolstoy, Milton, Cervantes, Rabelais, Dante, Ferdowsi and Homer – cradled by its siblings Ulysses (a puckish 101) and Moby-Dick (a swarthy adolescent of 172). It is the fate Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) and Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) discuss in Knives Out: The rarest, bristling with baffling arcana and elaborate design, make brave bids for immortality. More durable works may still feel noble a century hence, if suspended in aspic. Others, lively and seductive on first appearance, are dry husks a decade later. Some, indexed to topicalities with mayfly longevities, are decrepit before they’re published. Buy a bottle of The Competitor Cabernet at Wine LIbrary and get it signed while you say hi.Books age at variable rates. I’ll be signing The Competitor Cabernet on the 2nd floor of the store, in front of The Competitor Cabernet display along with a meet & greet. – I want everyone to RSVP here as well to see updates around the event. is your RSVP to the event and we will confirm it once you come to pick up the cases before the event on 10/14. – Buy 2 cases of The Competitor Cabernet from – wines/cabernet-sauvignon/ the-competitior-business-co nference-pack-102795 – The Competitor Business Conference Pack, and schedule it for pickup ( Shipping orders not valid for this event) It would mean the world to share this special wine and event with you, your family and friends. I’ll be talking wine, business and the spirit of competition in an 2 hour Q&A format. The bottle signing, following the Q&A is from 11 AM to 1 PM. This part of the event is completely FREE.

I will answer any question you ask! I’ll Be Signing Bottles After!Īfter my epic Q&A event, I’ll be sticking around to sign bottles of my private label, “The Competitor Cabernet” I am here to provide as much value as possible. I’ll be answering all of your questions on business, entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, wine, culture, and competition… This event is for YOU. The cost of this event is 2 cases of Competitor Cabernet (My private label Cabernet for the event) that you have to buy from I want you to road trip if you have to! 🙂

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I’m back to where it all started in order to host “ The Competitor Business Conference,” an exclusive 2 hr Q&A from 8 am to 10 am followed by a FREE wine bottle signing from 11am-1pmīring family, friends, cousins, and relatives.

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I wanted to share a quick update about an incredible Q&A event and public signing I’m hosting next Saturday, October 14, at WineLibrary in Springfield, New Jersey.