pynchon-l-digest V2 #1917

[Doug Millison]

>Waddell, *The Wandering Scholars*


That's one of the books Pynchon speaks of as an influence in his 
intro to Slow Learner, if I remember correctly.  I finally found a 
copy in a second hand shop a while back and have it on my 
ever-lenthening to read list. I'd be interested to hear more about 
this book and possible connections to Pynchon's fiction.

And, I guess those medieval troubadours might conceiveably be 
considered something like today's rappers.  Shock value and linking 
them theoretically via abstruse PoMo considerations aside, the 
content of most rap music seems so thin, commercially oriented, and 
derivative to me that it seems a stretch to read it in the same ball 
park with a writer like Pynchon; nor does P seem to have taken it up 
as a subject in his writing the way he has been inspired to write 
about jazz, popular music of earlier periods, classical music, and 
rock and roll.
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