The state of culture

[Krafft, John M.]

It's a sign (or symptom) of something, but of what? The other day in
Walgreen's I heard the store's version of Muzak playing, much to my
surprise, the original Knopfler-Taylor version of "Sailing to
Philadelphia." While one of the points about Muzak used to be that it
shouldn't be noticed, this was too loud not to register, and I
couldn't help wondering how many other customers were likely to
actually recognize the song and then to connect it with Pynchon. I'm
not paranoid enough to think the song was somehow intended for _me_,
but ...

John
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