orff and eliot

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

>From SL Intro.7
"A collateral effect, for me anyway, was that of Helen
Waddell's The Wandering Scholars, reprinted in the 'early
50's, an account of the young poets of the Middle Ages who
left the monasteries in large number and took to the roads
of Europe, celebrating in song the wider range of life to be
found outside the academic walls."

"O,O,O,
To-tus Flore-o!
Iam amore virginalia
Totus ardeo"

Orff was one of Hitler's favorites, right? And Pynchon
mentions him as an EARLY interest for opera production in
his Ford Application. Orff edited some 17th-century operas
and in 1937 produced his secular oratorio Carmina
Burana.Intended to be staged with dance, it was based on a
manuscript of medieval poems. That MS (including the Carmina
Burana is attributed to  The Goliards, wandering scholars
and students in western Europe during the 10th to the 13th
century who were known for their songs and poems in praise
of revelry.  In 1959 Pynchon say himself "entrenched on the
T.S. eliot side of no man's land." In GR, he has the rocket
engineers arrogantly failing to, contain themselves and
restrain each other and he lashes out at the
Bourgeois---"the rockets terrible passage reduced,
literally, to bourgeois terms, terms of an equation such as
that elegant blend of philosophy and hardware, abstract
change and hinged pivots of real metals which describes
motion under the aspects of yaw control"

On what side of no man's land does this furious machine gun
rattle? 

TF