Minstral Island

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Sure, and thank you. But I wouldn't call it a "play". From the scrap of 
dialogue that was posted it seems that what there is of it is very much 
an early draft, and not of much interest except for what we already 
knew about it, i.e. the plot précis which has been around for a while 
now. As I understand it, it was a collaboration between Pynchon and 
Kirkpatrick Sale, and it was meant to be a musical. It seems to me that 
they had an idea for a musical, wrote a rudimentary plot summary and 
then dashed off a very rough sketch of a couple of scenes, in order to 
apply for funding. When there was no interest from producers the 
project lapsed. It all seems pretty half-arsed.

The general thrust of it reminds me a bit of _Brazil_, or the 
so-bad-it's-kinda-good Styx rock opera _Kilroy Was Here_.

best

On 21/09/2005, at 6:31 PM, Pirate Prentice wrote:

> huh, no one on the Pynchon list's interested in an obscure Thomas 
> Pynchon play?
>
> Roger in Mexico
>
> On 9/20/05, Pirate Prentice <soulineverystone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> from pynch's lost work of 1958, delivered for your reading pleasure by
>> the friendly postmen of W.A.S.T.E. only two scenes were ever written--
>> the plot is a dystopic future where IBM has taken over the world and
>> the artists/stoners/perverts/misfits (you know, pynchon's usual gang)
>> are being reassigned work. sorry for the poop formatting--
>>
>> love,
>> Roger in Mexico
>>
>