Editing Pynchon?

[David Morris]

I think your "swirling stew" and "Bitches Brew" analogies are apt.
When I speak of GR's discipline I don't rule out wildly exuberant
freedom.  When I say "tight" I don't mean rigid.  The only way Miles
David could ever have produced Bitches Brew was after having
completely mastered many levels of extreme musical scholarship and
practical mastery, plus probably some really good weed.

I knew my absolutist statement could offend, but it was not intended
to do so.  I wouldn't know the greatness of GR had I not hung here on
the P-list in at least one GRGR, reading it slowly over a period of
many months.

David Morris

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Those that don't see the discipline in GR haven't read it enough.
> Absolutist statements such as this - whatever their grounding in fact - are always hard to swallow.
[...]
> GR always seemed to me like a big swirling stew out of which many things can be taken. I don't see the book as being as neat or as even as you seem to. I have compared it in the past to Miles Davis's 'Bitches Brew' and I stick by that comparison.