The Author as Science Guy

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on 2/28/03 4:05 PM, Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P. Chevalier" <Pierre.Chevalier at infm.ucl.ac.be>
> To: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: The Author as Science Guy
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>> That was the Italian Wedding Fake Book.
>> Which is actually real but was never translated for anglo-saxon readers.
>> 
> 
> Yes, fake books, including wedding fake books of various ethnic preferences,
> are both real and absolutely necessary to deterritorialized  musicians who
> can't possibly be expected to know all the songs likely to be called for.
> Fake books are "the book" to such musicians as Lectures on Conditioned
> Reflexes are "the book" to Pavlovians.
> 
> P.

I depended heavily on a fake book during my GB and cover band days. There is
a Brazilian fake book that a trumpet player turned me on to that actually
has Portuguese lyrics for the "Chicken Dance".

Even now, when running a new song down in a rehearsal, I can say to a guitar
player "Just give me the fake book version and I'll go from there" and he'll
know what I'm talking about.

Joe 
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>> 
>> At 12:56 19/02/2003 -0500, Paul Mackin wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 04:39, P. Chevalier wrote:
>>>> Well, yes, "un soupçon de sel" is a cooking term...
>>>> i thought it could have been an interesting debate to confront some
>>>> Pynchonian considerations from someone who had to read it all... in
>>> French...
>>>> With all what it implies in terms of "betrayals" towards the author...
>>> 
>>> Betrayal in the sense of delivering someone up to the enemy, or betrayal
>>> as advertising unpleasant news about a cherished object? Such as about
>>> the fixity of meaning as in deconstruction and such things?  From what
>>> you've been saying the latter meaning might be what you are getting at.
>>> What postmodernism more or less is supposed to do.
>>> 
>>> As a little joke I might say that p-listers are at least passing
>>> familiar with Deleuze and Guattari (sp?)  as the authors of the Italian
>>> Cake Book or was it Italian Fake Book in Vineland. I actually forget
>>> which is was.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, your posts are interesting even if we (I at least) don't always
>>> completely understand them. . A different perspective.
>>> 
>>> P.
>>> 
>>> 
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