DFW & TRP

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

> Can we obtain some insights into the difference between DFW &
> TRP via musical analogy?  

Pynchon = Don Van Vliet, aka Capt. Beefheart

Wallace = (from reading @100 pages of IJ) Zappa

This is not a slam at Wallace or Zappa, rather an honest (if not too well
thought out, as it just occured to me) opinion. Beefheart is a truly
original and one-of-a-kind genius (musical, poetikal, painting, etc.), in
my opinion, while Zappa is more one of the better stand-up-comedian-type
of genius.