The hacker we call Bob

[pynchonoid]

Haven't read Against the Day yet, either, but I've
already bought a copy at Amazon.  I doubt I'll buy a
copy of Dylan's new one, although I wouldn't be
surprised if I got one as a gift.



> 
> 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.
> >
> >

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