Banana peels

[David Nevin Friedman]

The Velvet and Pynchon are offspring of American Transcendentalism?  What
would Thoreau, Emerson et al think? :)


On Tue, 15 Oct 1996 hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu wrote:

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> On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Henry Musikar wrote:
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> > 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 _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. 
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> Heikki
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