new P Book Description: "stupid songs"

[pynchonoid]

"Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are
for the most part stupid songs"

Assuming that Pynchon wrote this, should we take it to
mean that he really and truly thinks the songs he's
written for his books are "stupid"? Or is this just
more self-deprecating humor, as in Slow Learner when
he chastises himself for stories that, assuming he has
read or heard reports of the reception of his works,
seem to be generally well regarded by critics, if not
here on Pynchon-l. 

"[...] Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just
after World War I, this novel moves from the labor
troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York,
to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the
Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the
mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the
Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood [...]"

Many locations he's treated before in his fiction
starting way back when.


from GR (index at Amazon.com):
 	on Page 488:
"... must have happened at the site. There was a
silence in that clearing I'd felt only once before.
Once, in Mexico. The year I was in America. We were
very deep in the jungle. We came on a flight of stone
..."

Interexting nexus:  the one non-Roger Mexico mention
of "Mexico" in GR, according to the Amazon.com index,
comes in this passage, which features Imipolix G.

Maybe P has a big enough view of things, and the
patience, to have planned it this way, back when he
was boasting to his agent about rocking the literary
world with the several novels he was working on at the
same. Then again, maybe not. 



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