Elitist Pynchon-ites?

[s~Z]

>>>Music speaks to the "thymic" part, if I am
not mistaken, the emotional cosmos, the psyche itself, if you will.<<<

Steely Dan speaks to the thymic part.

Xenakis speaks to much more:

"Music always has been, since ancient times, at least, something very close
to rational thinking and to mathematics. You know that, don't you? For
instance, the Guido d'Arezzo way of writing music which was already in the
writing of Byzantine music - after the alphabetical writing of ancient
times - was a two-dimensional design for the sound: pitch versus time. And
that was much before Erasmus [Desiderius Erasmus, 1466?-1536] started
thinking in that way - and also Descartes with analytic geometry - so it is
a fantastic step to put together two dimensions that have nothing to do
together - did I say so? Yes, I did say so. They have to do with one another
a lot; but as a substance, they are absolutely foreign to each other. What
they have in common is the structure, the mental structure, because they are
additive groups: both time spans and intervals. So, at that time, music was
in front of scientific thought or mathematical thought, which became
important later on."

http://rogerreynolds.com/xenakis1.html