Character (WAS: COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board)

[Robin Landseadel]

On May 16, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> What is any writer doing with the rest of his mind while (s)he is
> writing?  Can anyone express anything without their cumulative
> knowledge and experience coloring what they say?  History, memory,
> fact -- are these other than corruptions of experience?  And what
> about the reader?  Can we leave the reader out of the formula?  Of
> course Pynchon says more than he intends.  That's the nature of the
> Jungian shadow -- we know more Pynchon's shadow than he does.  Of
> course that also implies you all know more about mine than I do,  
> etc. . .


Recorded Anner Bylsma lecturing at Musicsources up in Berkeley, mid- 
ninties. Everybody was hoping for a concert, what they got was a  
musicological spiel illustrated with various cello embellishments,  
with one of Bach's cello suites thrown in at the end for good measure.  
My big takeaway was Mr. Bylsma talking about reading about musicians:

	"I have read so much about Beethoven—his music, his health,
	his love life—I know more about Beethoven than I do of my
	father. . .

	[right proper luftpausen on the rest here]

	. . . or of myself . . ."