Oprah's next Book Selection

[Bryan Snyder]

ahh.... thank  you.

B
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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.'
> 
> http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html
> 
> 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/