V-2nd C4 The Eternal Drama of Love and Death

[Dave Monroe]

"Captured in the score's black symbols [...] the eternal drama of love
and death continued to unfold entirely disconnected from this evening
and place." (V, Ch. 4, pp. 97-8)


"fewer traffic lights"

http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/busman.pdf


WQXR

http://www.wqxr.org/

WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz) is a classical radio station licensed to Newark,
New Jersey and serving the New York City metropolitan area. It is the
most listened-to classical music  station in the United States, with
an average quarter-hour audience of 63,000. On the air since 1939,
WQXR-FM is also one of the oldest continuously operating FM stations
in the world.

[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQXR-FM


"Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture flowed syrupy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=sBf1O4Mbieo

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=xaqp6e4ru8k

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_%28Tchaikovsky%29

http://www.barbwired.com/barbweb/programs/tchaikovsky_romeo.html

http://imslp.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet,_overture-fantasia_%28Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr_Ilyich%29

"The 'syrupy' quality of the music and the cliche implications of its
title reminds us that love is rarely treated without either irony or
pessimism in the novel" --Grant, Companion, p. 61

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/


"a faceless delinquent"

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency was
established by the United States Senate in 1953 to investigate the
problem of juvenile delinquency.

[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Subcommittee_on_Juvenile_Delinquency

The Senate Investigation

http://www.crimeboss.com/history03-1.html

Transcripts

http://www.thecomicbooks.com/1954senatetranscripts.html

Cf. "delinquent wilderness" (ibid.) ...


"Cries in Spanish ....  A report ...."

Cf., e.g., ...

http://www.johncage.info/workscage/radiomusic.html


"Captured in the score's black symbols"

http://imslp.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet,_overture-fantasia_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr_Ilyich)#Image_Files_.28Scores.29

Cf., e.g., ...

N.T.A.

339; New Turkic Alphabet; written language imposed on Central Asia by
Russians; 341; Cyrillic NTA, 354; plenary session, 355; "first Central
Asian fuck you signs," 355; See also naming;
Routinization/Rationalization of Charisma

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/n.html#nta

... but do note that "captured" as well--Pynchon contra symbolism,
representation, mediation?


"given life"

"... the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."  --2 Corinthians 3:6

http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-6.htm


"vibrating air columns and strings"

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#c1


"having taken passage through ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/audio/spk.html


"the eternal drama of love and death"

"The fact that the drama is 'given life' by the inanimate workings of
the radio system and that it is 'entirely disconnected from this
evening and this place' suggests that Esther's journey is taking her
to an assignation without any promise of real human connectedness."
--Grant, Companion, p. 62

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/

... but also, note said "drama" "captured in the" novel's "black
symbols" as well ...