Does the Broken Estate Have a Heart?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Still wondering what that is supposed to mean.
> Does it relate to Saul Bellow's critique,that reading
> Gravity's Rainbow is like listening to Paderewski:

Charlie Parker or John Coltrane would be a more apt analogy.

> . . . one gets tired of the virtuosity?

Not this reader, I live for virtuosity, I brake for roulades, cheer on  
chromatic cascades of 64th notes. I've got every version of "Bird"  
blowing "Ko-Ko" i could get my little mitts on.  I really, really like  
it when Martha Argerich takes off in the Rachmaninoff third piano  
concerto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpKP4xhdAc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QORbd8uJU&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfj3-mH48g&NR=1

Different strokes, dig?

> Or is he admitting that Pynchon may be making points that he can't  
> follow?

Entirely possible.