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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