Baseball Redux

[Chris Stolz]

Well, Pynchon seems to have a soft spot for the more elegant,
least self-conscious of pop musics.  The Beatles are I think a
little too contrived for his tastes.  The beach Boys, now, there
you have it, pop perfection without overwhelming ironies.  And as
for coltrane, monk, parker-- these men made brilliant,  beautiful
music which was graceful and complex.  They just did it, no self-
reflection necessary.  If there is a writer who has captured the
structural intricacies and freeforms of jazz (truly schizophrenic
music) it would be Pynchon.

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chris stolz		16 oakview pl. sw calgary ab canada t2v-3z9
cstolz at acs.ucalgary.ca	(403) 281-6794


"But you must admit that our ignorance is manifestly of a very rich 
and varied sort?" said Ulrich.


			Robert Musil, _The Man Without Qualities_