that sci-fi opera

[Doug Millison]

There must be a more definitive source out there -- perhaps somebody else
(Rich?) can reference it -- but here's what the Pomona site says:

"He is wholly familiar with opera; his Ford Foundation fellowship
application had expressed his desire to write comic opera and to "adapt
contemporary American Science Fiction to the operatic stage." "
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

Hope that helps,
Doug

P.S.  I don't recall the details of the story, which I hope somebody might
provide, but didn't Pynchon take some sort of action (legal or otherwise)
to keep his Ford Foundation application private after it became the object
of an article or essay or something?


Fester Scratchit:
"I haven't read that Ford Foundation application (too many boxes of
cornflakes still waiting on my bookshelves) but I was under the
impression he meant *space* opera, as in science fiction novel, as in,
like, Dune, and not *opera* opera, as in, like, Tosca.  I'm not sure why
anybody would think Pynchon is in any way capable of composing an
opera...?  Is this really one of his ambitions?"