(topic diaspora) 2 books and an artist...

[Michael Bailey]

like reading Longitude helps imbibe the atmosphere of Mason & Dixon,

I've picked up 2 novels about painters, to help catch a feeling for
the stuff Wyatt is copying
Picture This by Joseph Heller (whose non-Catch 22 stuff is still
pretty good, there is at least one that I like better than Catch-22
but I can never remember which)
and As Above So Below by Rudy Rucker, which I guess is about Bruegel...

well, ok, not all Dutch masters are the same, and I don't know at this
point if there is a van der Goes
(although at least, unlike Basil Valentine, I don't think he's the
same as van Gogh)

Rudy Rucker keeps notes as he writes his books,
http://www.rudyrucker.com/writing/ has a set of notes for each of a
number of books he's published
- sort of interesting, very un-Pynchonian but cool in its own way

also, there was this painter, not Kandinsky though he was cool, and
pretty spiritual...
but this one was influenced by Rudolf Steiner, oh yeah, Joseph
Beuys...I keep wanting to read up on him, he seems gloriously
eccentric and prolific

"....According to his own account, when the Nazi Party staged their
book-burning in Kleve on May 19, 1933 in the courtyard of his school,
he salvaged the book Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus "...from that
large, flaming pile..."