Secret Files: Tunguska

[Dave Monroe]

--- the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
 
> Didn't he approve of it on the condition that the
> only musical instrument to be used would be the
> kazoo? 

Banjo ...

"Thomas Pynchon I admire very much. And now I'm using
'artist' in the broadest sense of the word. Gravity's
Rainbow is just so beautiful because it's very
multidimensional. I really like books that you can
kind of hear as much as think about, that are so
graphic and visual. I wanted to make an opera of that
book, actually, and I wrote to him and asked him if
that would be OK (I actually found him; he's quite
reclusive). And he wrote me this funny letter. He
said, 'You can do it, but you can only use banjo.' And
so I thought, 'Well, thanks. I don't know if I could
do it like that.' I suppose it was his polite way of
saying, 'No. No way can you do this.'"

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