Pynchon & Jazz

[prozak at anus.com]

> My folks make the Ozzy's clan  look like the Partridge family so me and
> all my siblings rebelled against metal and took to Bach. At least most
> of us learned to make use of the instruments round the house when my
> parents were out. 

Either is a fully respectable form of music if done correctly :)

> My rebellion didn't end in conformity, I actually
> married a pianist. My wife doesn't teach our daughter piano. We learned,
> after my oldest son failed English, that our kids are rebel is odd ways
> and prefer not to have parent-teachers. 

Imprinting...

> My daughter's piano instructor
> is also a famous pianist. She's from Kazakhstan. I can't quite convince
> her that she needn't "watch her english" around me. Her English is far
> better than my wife's english, but she so self-conscious about about it
> and her accent. I don't know how she and my wife communicate. She speaks
> German and Russian and her accent sounds more German than Russian at
> times. To look at her you would guess she's Chinese. Ah me, what a
> wonderful world.

A study of Slavic DNA is fascinating. Most have latent Asiatic, 
Australid or middle eastern traits, creating in central Russia a 
population that between generations fluctuates between Asiatic, 
"European," Baltic and Berber-ish traits :)


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