Thomas Pynchon's schlmiels

[Mark Kohut]

Robin,

I have just recently reread the Beethoven namecheck in Gravity's Rainbow! 
The narrator says, critically it seems, he was all intention! 

I wanted to ask all the music-minded on this list to comment but did not want to waylay with another thread. But yiou set me up.

Mr. Tone Deaf

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon's schlmiels
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3:52 PM
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:15 PM, alice
> wellintown wrote:
> 
> > Unless I've been watching too
> > many Loony Toon Cartoons . . .
> 
> Occupational hazard.
> 
> So, if TRP name-checks Voltaire and Prometheus can
> Beethoven be far behind?
> 
> Good posts, BTW.
> 
> 
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