The hacker we call Bob

[pynchonoid]

As works of art, novels and pop albums are apples and
oranges. How can an album, something less than an
hour's worth of music, perhaps a dozen songs of
varying quality and as often as not "produced" by
somebody whose impact on the final sound may be
greater than the originating artist's, be compared to
a novel that takes days or perhaps months to read, was
written solely by the author, & etc. 

Do I believe Dylan's new CD will be as artistically
significant as Pynchon's next novel? No. Do I believe
any of Dylan's music to be as artistically significant
as Pynchon's writing?  Yes. 

Do I believe a music CD can be as artistically
significant as a novel?  Why not? Depends on the
novel, on the music, it depends on  what the meaning
of is is.

What I haven't done, of course, is make any value
judgements about the relative merits of high and pop
culture, or of novels and music CDs, or of Pynchon and
Dylan generally, or whatever the straw man argument is
you're  setting up and knocking down.  

I hope that's clear now.



--- Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >What makes you think so?
> 
> This:
> 
> >Did somebody really suggest that a new album by
> Dylan
> >might as artistically significant as Pynchon's
> >upcoming novel?  No way.
> 
> You're saying 'apples and oranges',  in other words
> they can't be compared. 
> But on th eother hand you're saying no way can a
> Dylan album be as 
> artistically significant as a Pynchon novel.
> 
> 
> 


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