ATD: unanswered questions in 6/8 pgs. 552/555

[James Kyllo]

Alex James, ex of Blur, in today's Telegraph:

"I thought the bass was the easiest instrument to play until I got a
ukulele.  Every schoolchild should be given one.  It's impossible to
take yourself too seriously when you are playing one.  It sends good
subliminal messages to your brain not to be a pompous, self-regarding
bore.  I play the ukulele more than anything.  The kids love it.
They've all got their own"


J

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> . . . .There's always this deliberate distortion of the mode of address
> in Pynchon's presentation of 'The Classics'. Of course, classical
> music , in all its "Margaret Dumont at the Opera" ostentation is
> such an easy, juvenile target for TRP. But it seems much more
> complicated here. Go back to page 552, where Miles Blundell
> is discussing the low esteem of the ukulele with Thorn Ryder:
>
>           . . . .traceable, we concluded to the uke's all-but-exclusive
>           employment as a producer of chords---single, timeless
>           events apprehended all at once instead of serially [1]. Notes
>           of a linear melody, up and down a staff, being a record of
>           pitch versus time, to play a melody is to introduce the
>           element of time, and hence of mortality. . . .
>

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