Kerry wrote:
"I agree, and I think I said that it is the use of many, many
POP references in one book that might be part of creating a
post-modern hyper reality."
I'd say hyper-realty goes one step further, where the line
becomes blurred between the pop references within the fiction
and the fictional world itself. For instance, on the simplest
level, Remington Steele used to solve cases by finding a
movie that fit what was going on. This was also used on Andy
Barker, PI last week. He told several people a woman had
hired him to find her husband. Every one of them interrupted
him to say, It's not his real wife, haven't you seen
Chinatown? These people were living in a hyper-real world
where they were forcing reality to conform to the pop
references, and it did, thereby confirming their postmodern
worldview.
Mark
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