that sci-fi opera

[jbor]

Some of Weisenburger's article is cited here:

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

A libretto is, of course, the text of an opera (i.e. the lyrics and
dialogue), not the musical score.

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on 14/1/02 8:33 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski at hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi
wrote:

> Hei, for the possible interest of those not in the know:
> 
> not surprisingly, it is Steve Weisenburger who has written
> an article on the Ford Foundation application in which he
> reveals as much as it is legally possible. The article came
> out in _American Literature_ in 1990 or 1991 (anyone?).
> 
> As far as I remember, it surely was a genuine libretto that
> Pynchon had in mind. The article also unfolds interesting
> things re Pynchon's childhood and youth: our man starting
> to write stories at eight; living through phases like scifi,
> F Scott Fitzgerald and H James phases: as TRP self-reflects,
> vacillating between romanticism and classicism.
> 
> 
> Heikki
> 
>