"Too many notes, Mozart"

[rich]

no reason for us to voice our differences on late Pynchons work as we've
done that time And again.
As someone who has been deeply influenced by his work, I laud that
experience and cherish the things I've learned along the way.
Pynchon doesn't speak to me as deeply as he once did. It's s bummer getting
old. :)

rich

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:00 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember when THAT was all over the Gravity's Rainbow judgment and still
> is by many readers. Still is re V., Vineland too, of course and most
> especially Against the Day.
>
> All wrong.
>
> "The peculiar thing is that this charge of "an excess of art", which was
> used to cudgel Bach in his last years, was one that dogged Mozart
> throughout his maturity.
>
> The famous complaint of Emperor Joseph II about The Marriage of Figaro -
> "too many notes, Mozart" - is generally perceived to be a gaffe by a
> blockhead. In fact, Joseph was echoing what nearly everybody, including his
> admirers, said about Mozart: he was so imaginative that he couldn't turn it
> off, and that made his music at times intense, even demonic. Hence Mozart's
> bad, or cautionary, reviews: "too strongly spiced"; "impenetrable
> labyrinths"; "bizarre flights of the soul"; "overloaded and overstuffed".
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>
> Still, in the end, the reputation of Mozart in his own time was about what
> it is today: he was considered an incomparable master. "
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:43 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Exactly :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:40 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> They? Them?
>>>
>>> 2017-05-09 17:35 GMT+02:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Maybe if they'd cut 250 pgs minimum from BE I'd agree.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:32 AM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I like the idea that historical fiction can be prescient. It's sort of
>>>>> Pynchon's M.O.
>>>>> Not that he treats the past as an equation whose result is the
>>>>> present, and that we could have predicted our now by better analysing
>>>>> what led to it (which is a lot of historical fiction). It's more like
>>>>> reverse science fiction. In SF the future is usually a way of thinking
>>>>> about our current historical moment. In Pynchon the past is no more
>>>>> real than SF, but is a most useful fiction through which to ken our
>>>>> circumstances, if the light is right.
>>>>> Anyway Bleeding Edge has it all.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Mr. Auerbach has latterly suggested that the election of Donald
>>>>> Trump is a
>>>>> > Decoherence Event ala his mythos  of Pynchon's vision. Just FYI.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Declared BLEEDING EDGE to be prescient, which, when I think about
>>>>> dark
>>>>> > money, the deep web in BE and Cambridge Analytics, unsolved
>>>>> mysteries, what
>>>>> > is the truth?,  seems righter than ever.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Sent from my iPad
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On May 8, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > One of the best early considerations of BE, fer sure
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> https://twitter.com/AuerbachKeller/status/861623079067365378
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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