Banana peels

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

It happened again. Now I'll try to send this straight to pynchon-l instead
of "replying" to Henry, my English namesake. I want to add that the whole
musical structure of the Television piece "Marquee Moon", with Tom's and
Richard's dialogic, not dialectic, guitars, is Orphic, sure, but as in
_GR_, the revelation never takes place, tensions will not ease off. 

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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Henry Musikar wrote:

> A-and how about another NYC band, much more banana-fun oriented than 
> the VU, David Peel and whatever it was. Lower East side and much more 
> Pynchonesque.

Yet more VU-like NYC bands may be Pynchonesque, too. _Gravity's Rainbow_
(the best book to me) and Television's _Marquee Moon_ (the best record to
me) seem both warped offspring of American Transcendentalism. Since it is,
after all, *Cadillac* that takes "Marquee Moon's" Orphic narrator to the
graveyard. 

Heikki