Oprah's next Book Selection

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           Bryan Snyder:
           I am reminded of the Opera singer/writer 
           who asked TP if she could do a opera based 
           of GR and TP responded by saying the only 
           musical instrument she was permitted to use 
           was a banjo... and she took that as a polite no.  

That would be Laurie Anderson, who already made reference to 
GR in Gravity's Angels:

           Anderson:	 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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I wonder: If Against the Day every comes under the Oprah insignia,
would Professor Irwin Corey show up with a bag over his head?

http://www.irwincorey.org/