SLSL "TSR" Frogs

[William Zantzinger]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I do expect jbor would be croaking a different tune
if he had thought of The Frogs first.
> 
> -Doug

What happened here? I can't quite figure out what all
the fuss is about. I'm sure Dave was not the first
person to think, hey, chorus, frogs, sounds familiar.

 
Ok, Greek moon goddess plowed by a white bull,
buttercup...G&S...pinafore....aristophones...Frogs. 

Ok, so what? 

Frogs is pretty crappy play. I guess the first half is
funny in a slobish sort of way and the second half is
sort of interesting in a snobish sort of way but what
the hell has it got to do with Nathan Levine and
Pynchon's little story? 

Pasiphaë? What's that all about? Why does Pynchon toss
that in? Trying to make it literary? That closed
curcuit crap is pretty lame too and that paragraph
with the chanting frogs is just the worst sophmoric
part of the entire tale. We don't need to dress it up
with gobbledygook and call it brilliant misunderstood
creative genius. It's crap. Frogs? OK, let's say P is
alluding to that Play. So what? Does this allusion
mean anything? Pynchon plays with his sources and
allusions. Take the parable of the sower for instance.
P twists it out of shape because it fits, ironically
and humorously, into his communication theme. So how
would an allusion to Frogs fit into any of the themes
in this tale? Did I miss this explaination? I don't
think Robert or anyone else will be upset or envious
if anyone can tell us how Frogs fits into this story.
Please, anyone, tell us before we all croke on our
noses despite our faces.  

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