Pinch and Swallow: Musickal Musings

[RuudSaurins at aol.com]

     I, too, have enjoyed wearing out the delete button in response to all the musings regarding rap, hip-hop, Eminem, and Pynchon.  I simply do not see them related in any but the most contrived and pretentious fashion.  I do, however, think that music (in general, all forms, styles, fashions, social implications, etc.) is very dear, and possibly important to Thomas Pynchon.  It is one area of his writing where I feel he will "go out of his way" just to drop a name.  I must admit an instant cheap thrill when he mentions, for example, Jaco Pastorius in Vineland.  Nice to think we may share some similar tastes.   Rossini vs. Beethoven in the ears and heart of Osbie Feel in GR.  I could post and read ad nauseum about Pynchon and music, but focusing on Eminem, rap, and hip-hop to the exclusion of the topic at large srikes me as mis-directed bordering on pathetic.
                        Know one owes,
                        Ruud Saurins