Rating ATD

[kelber at mindspring.com]

GR is Pynchon's One Fish, Two Fish
ATD is Oh, The Places You'll Go

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>Sent: Sep 10, 2008 10:17 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Rating ATD
>
>          Heikki:
>          At the risk of sounding Mansonesque - GR is 
>          OBA's "White Album". All the way from the 
>          howling that comes across the sky in Paul's 
>          "Back in the USSR" through John's "Goodnight" 
>          that resonates with the last page of GR, 
>          preceded by "Revolution 9", fragmentary as 
>          GR's last part....with your inside out & outside 
>          in, water music in mountain streams, warm 
>          guns, piggies all over the place, etc.
>
>          AtD is OBA's "Sandinista".
>
>Gravity's Rainbow is Pynchon's "Tragic" Symphony, 
>Mason & Dixon is his "Song of the Night" and OBA's 
>Against the Day is a shotgun wedding of "Symphony of 
>a Thousand" and "Das Lied von der Erde."
>
>[V. is "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", The Crying of Lot 49
>is the Rückert Lieder and Vineland is Lieder eines
>fahrenden Gesellen.]
>
>
>