Italian Wedding fakebook

[Bill Millard]

Daniel O'Hara commented to Andrew:

> You can`t have your cake and eat it, Mr. Dinn. If the `fake book` phrase
> is a snub (and note that the text doesn`t say `fake book`), then Pynchon
> must at least have read D&G. On the other hand, if Pynchon hasn`t read
> D&G, as you seem to want to believe, the D&G reference cannot be a
> snub. 

Foax, before a flame war develops out of a misunderstanding,
somebody'd better clarify that "fake book" isn't a snub; it's a very
common jazz term.  A fakebook is a collection of charts for jazz and
pop standards, used by musicians to navigate (ok, fake their way
through) songs they might have to cover during a session whether or
not they're familiar with those songs.  TRP seems to be counting on
the reader to pick up the musical sense of this phrase, as he does
with so many other terms of art.  The D&G Italian Wedding Fake Book
would be full of things like Bm7+9, not the infamous Deleuzian BwO.  
(Geez, aren't there more musicians around here?)

Metaphorically, to speak of a musician's or band's "fakebook" is to 
refer to their repertoire of covers.  Yo La Tengo titled an album 
mostly comprising cover songs "Fakebook" in acknowledgment of this.  
Damn good record, by the way, but that would be a different thread.

If anybody'd care to riff on the nature of the D&G allusion --
something that made me laugh out loud when I first read it, but that
I've never been able to explicate in rational non-schizo terms, so
I'll refrain from trying here -- it would be a public boon.

Back to work now, 
Bill

PS: Hey, waitasec... body w/o organs, Mafia wedding, threat of 
imminent dismemberment... nah, it can't be that simple....