The state of culture

[David Morris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGMo9yOaSU
Brian Eno: "Music for Airports"

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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