Fugue

[John Bailey]

I remember hearing the term "fug" in relation to jazz, derived from
the musical fugue. It was used to describe when jazz musos got really
into a great impro and went into The Zone or whatever you want to call
it; pretty much that intense concentration/dissociation thing
mentioned earlier.

But when I went to corroborate this memory (because I have very little
knowledge of/interest in jazz), Wikipedia redirects "fug" to a page on
"cannabis".

How very, very appropriate.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:24 PM, brook7 at sover.net wrote:
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>> I continue to think about the gem Robin points us to of the double meaning
>> and double appearance  of the radio fugue/fugue state image/phrase.
>
> Gee, thanks.
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> Don't forget, at the bottom of it all is Bach—the Brook. Bach seems to me to
> be the best argument in favor of Christianity.  Christian themes abound in
> all of Pynchon's books. Bach's deep, confident belief in Christianity drives
> through all of his music. Nobody else makes the idea of resurrection as
> plausible or compelling as Bach.
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