Quantz (was Re: M&D p 172 spoiler question)

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Brian D. McCary wrote:

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> Plus, while I'm at it, does anyone have any info on this Quantz, 
> who wrote the Etudes Slowcombe the Seahorse piper mentions on 53,
> and the transcriptions Aunt Euphrenia plays on oboe as soundtrack
> for the narration on 104?

I suspect he is as fictional as Timothy Tox, author of the much quoted
"Pensylvaniad."  Pynchon tends to throw these fictional literary (and
musical) sources into his stories...

Max

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