Dan references
Fiona Shnapple
fionashnapple at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 07:29:56 CDT 2013
Thanks you.
It is important to look into these apparent erros.
P is certainly not infallible.
And,as you suggest here, Richard, when we give him the benefit of poetic
licence, we appreciate his research, his humor, his huge talent.
I can see so many of scenes read at the 92 Street Y to a typical crowd of
silver hairs who would be both wild with joy, rolling in the aisles and
groaning, then chatting the deeper meanings up hours, and days later.
In this example, P does not simply tack on a bunch of words to the song
titles. So, what might he be up to here? The popular song title, what
people call the songs? The refrain, the first line, the first few notes,
whatever, jar the memory.
And the cryptic song title, not to mention the obscure and cryptic puns of
Steely Dan are ironed out, flatironed here, but uner the street,
well, kinda like P, where the cult readers and listeners are in on it,
there is meanings...like Katie Lied's first song is Black Friday and on the
cover of The Royal Scam...etc...
Looking at how he's funning and punning away, on names and title, on
celebs, and how people use popular song lyrics in conversation, popular
phrases from TV, shop-talk from the Websters, Opera lingo from the Opera
fans....the list goes on, I think it is useful to point out the "mistakes",
and then dig into them to find the beauty in the errors.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One thing odd that jumped out at me about BE is, so far I noticed two
> references to Steely Dan songs: Doctor Wu, and The Fez, and in both cases
> Pynchon got the titles wrong by adding a bunch of words to them. "Are you
> with me Doctor Wu" and "Aint never gonna do it without the Fez on".
> Rich
>
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