Organ-eyes Crime

Cyrus cyrusgeo at netscape.net
Tue Nov 2 05:53:37 CST 2004


jollyrogerx99 at yahoo.com wrote:

>  I gave you evidence: Pynchon's notes to an album by Spike Jones,
>

Sorry. No such evidence there.

> as well as the section in GR where Slothrop's  disdain (and also TP's) 
> for the romantic bombast of Beethoven is made abundantly clear.
>

Again, sorry. That was Beethoven against Rossini, not Pynchon against 
Beethoven.

> And what  about the image in GR of the cosmic blues harp, hmm, maestra?
>

What about it? How does this support your claim?

> His criticism of CP Snow is also somewhat telling of his general 
> anti-bourgeois and anti-aristo spirit.
>

And that has something to do with classical music? Are you referring to 
certain types of audience, perhaps (not unique to classical music)?

> If you are reading TP as some sort of Henry James or TS Eliot sort of 
> belle-lettrist, I got news for ya hermana: you missed the phuckin' bus....
>

This sentence is obviously a joke, so I won't bother....

Cyrus



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