Simpsons, German

[Terrance]

joeallonby wrote:
> 
> on 11/7/03 1:03 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> 
> > Cellos sound better than Tubas?
> 
> No they don't. I heard a tuba player with Max Roache's band a while back who
> sold me on the instrument. When he stood up to take a solo, the crowd rose
> with him.

Exactly. 

> 
> > La Vita E Bella (1997) Italian sounds better than German too.
> > German, to American ears, sounds ugly. French sounds beautiful.
> > London English sounds smarter than Brooklyn Black English.
> 
> Have you ever heard French rap music? (Chime in here Monroe.) It doesn't
> flow very well, but they dress nicely.

Yeah. That's right. 


> 
> On the other hand, I once heard the Handel & Haydn Society performance of
> Mozart's (!) version of the "Messiah". The German was breathtakingly
> beautiful.

Why not. 


> 
> I guess that as a singer and musician, I hear language differently from you.
> Try reading Vineland aloud sometime. Or On the Road. The cadence, phrasing,
> and rhythm are beautiful. That's one of the reasons why I love Pynchon. Pull
> a sentence out of Gravity's Rainbow and read it aloud.


Not a good guess. What passages (other than the Fitzgerald gatsby stuff)
in VL?