Pynchon & Jazz

[prozak at anus.com]

> I'm sorry, I have to take issue with this. Unless you mean "Romanticism" in
> the very broadest possible sense, in which case it permeates nearly all
> artistic human endeavor.

Yes, and no. I mean romanticism as a thought process, which does not 
permeate every human endeavor; while Bach had many issues with this 
on the surface, e.g. Deism and technicalism, he was also well in 
touch with the impulse of Romantic spirit.

4 a : marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is 
heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized b often 
capitalized : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of 
romanticism c : of or relating to music of the 19th century 
characterized by an emphasis on subjective emotional qualities and 
freedom of form; also : of or relating to a composer of this music

In my view, he found "Romanticism" as a philosophical concept within 
an expression of music that isn't in the textbooks "Romantic"; 
however, this in itself is quite Pynchonian...

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