Italian Wedding fakebook

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Bill Millard writes:
> 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 . . .

Err, I suspect that's maybe why I used the phrase `Pynchon's fake book
pun' to describe the Vineland reference - the which, as Dan points
out, occurs in the text as `The Italian Wedding Fake Book by Deleuze
and Guattari' (excuse spelling, it's from memory). Like I said,
newbies ought to hang around a while before posting lest they
inadvertently light someone's blue touch paper. I'd hate for us to
have to resort to dumb emoticons and dumber prose every time we make a
*joke*.

As for flames I have already written a perfectly polite private email
to Dan on the subject of regurgitated fake cake. I have no intention
of offering creme brulee as an alternative. Nor I suspect does he.


Andrew Dinn
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