Station Identification

[Doug Millison]

How to compare literature and music?  Do Bowie to Pynchon fall in the same
register even?  Does Bowie embrace the high-culture to pop-culture spectrum
the way Pynchon does?  Does Bowie get as deep into the roots of contemporary
culture the way Pynchon does? Does he offer a "voice" that gets inside the
head the way Pynchon does and speak as directly and fundamentally to the
mid-to-late 20th century human condition? I don't reject the "as powerful as
anything by Thomas Pynchon" forumulation, but it doesn't seem to say very
much.