Dan references

[Fiona Shnapple]

their website, among many other hilarious writings, contains  a ... When
they were finally voted in, they immediately opened a fake auction for the
commemorative trophies awarded by a "self-styled 'official' musical
honorary organization". Items offered in exchange ranged from cash offers
to "somebody's gold teeth" and something simply described as "biological
matter".

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SteelyDan?from=Main.SteelyDan
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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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