Fergus

[Jeremy Osner]

O' wrote:

> Mixolydian: In music terminology, the mixolydian mode is a
> major scale with a flatted, aka minor or (appropriate to
> "the laziest living creature in New York") "lazy" seventh
> degree.
>         Tim Ware's HyperArt Pynchon

Readers of Plato's *Republic* will recall that the philosopher had
unkind words for the lydian and mixed lydian modes; as I recall he said
something like, "Even women have no use for them, let alone men!"

Jeremy