Pynch ment

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I recall some listers having been somewhat pissed off by Steely Dan
references on the list but swear that I came across this Mojo thing 
all by accident; it might have been mentioned on the list already, 
but then again, might not (the URL for the whole interview being
www.steelydan.com/mojo.html):


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Mojo, 10/95


THE RETURN OF STEELY DAN

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Becker: [---] Also, we were interested in the
black humour tradition in literature, that was highly charged with this
sensibility.

Fagen: We were both fans of William Burroughs...

Becker: ...Nathanael West...

Fagen: ...Bruce Jay Friedman, Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov...

Becker: ...Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Southern, Thomas Pynchon...

Fagen: They were very big in New York at the time.

MOJO: Fairly big in England, too.

Fagen: Well, you guys invented irony, so...!

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Heikki