Bodhisatva & Show Biz Kids

[Derek C. Maus]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Right, Steely Dan---these satirists. Why Zappa? He's another
> satirist and Pynchon mentions him several times, for example
> in his SL Intro. at the end (Pynchon seems to relate,
> California word from a New Yorker, rilly,  and in VL. The
> two songs are satires that, only to my listening to them
> today, have some connection to the current GR chapters. 

The Zappa connection I see easily enough, but I'm curious to hear how you
see the Steely Dan songs as a) satires (they seem sort of like
self-parodies to me, esp. the latter with the mention of the "Steely Dan
t-shirts") and b) related to GR. Given the length and breadth of the
playlist we've assembled so far, I'm always curious to see the connections
people are making.

As far as I know, TP never mentions Steely Dan, but I could be wrong. If
he does, it'd almost surely have to be in Vineland.

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