The hacker we call Bob

[Ray Easton]

Does anyone besides me find it odd that this discussion goes on without 
any evidence that any of the participants have actually listened to 
"Modern Times"?

On Sunday, Aug 27, 2006, at 19:03 US/Central, pynchonoid wrote:

> 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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