Banana peels

Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Thu Oct 17 03:32:50 CDT 1996


hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu writes:

> It happened again. Now I'll try to send this straight to pynchon-l instead
> of "replying" to Henry, my English namesake.

I think we may just have been suffering a temporary service outage
over at waste.

> 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. 

Yeah, and I remem-ber how the dark-ness doubled. . . .

Although, good as Marquee Moon is I prefer TV's contributions on
Horses. There's a much more VU like sound on e.g. Birdland or the
title track. The lyrics are something else, too. Now everybody,

    The boy looked at Johnny. . . .


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.



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