what's a "direct reference"? WAS RE: Pynchon & rap

[Doug Millison]

Of course we discussed the music in M&D in the original MDMD, and I expect
you'll be hard pressed to find the words "rap music" in that novel.  My
point is that "jbor" has a rather flexible approach to what is or isn't
"direct reference" in Pynchon's text.  If somebody else points to Pynchon's
use of the word  "holocaust" in GR and says that might be a direct reference
to the Holocaust, for example, you get an argument and lecture about textual
support for an interpretation. But now a passage in M&D that does not refer
once to rap music has been called a "direct reference" to same. A great
example of "no facts, only interpretations" perhaps?  Or just fuzzy logic
used in the service of an intellectually dishonest argument? 

"so the final opinion about Pynchon's taste in music doesn't hold
much water at all."

And of course I've expressed no "final opinion about Pynchon's taste in
music" and have instead been careful to talk about what we find in Pynchon's
texts.  Doesn't "jbor" have anything better to do than to rewrite my posts? 

Here is an opinion:  Pynchon's writings reveal, to me, an artist who is
highly sensitive to music and who appreciates a broad spectrum of music that
spans high brow to low brow, and who may have the level of appreciation that
comes from being a hands-on amateur.  Based on his characterization of some
experimental music in COL49, I also suspect P knows bullshit when he hears
(sees) it, and that this may -- just guessing here, of course -- account for
his famous aversion to much of the academic discussion that surrounds his
work.

What hopelessly lame cover band is it that P has playing from the
Deleuze-Guattari Fake Book?