[NewMusic] Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.

[Phillip Greenlief]

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Chris Broderick
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.

Hey, I'm not nagging on Pynchon (I'm with you re:
Against the Day, which may be my favorite of his
works), seeing as he's probably my favorite writer
ever.  But I'd bet he'd be the first to admit that
Vonnegut is more concise.

PG:
I would have to agree - but I'm sure it has never been Pynchon's aim to
be "concise". His "Here Comes Everybody" approach, which he gleefully
inherited from Joyce, wouldn't stand for such foolishness. 

And yeah: Against the Day, right?

I can't stop laughing...except on the pages when he doesn't want me to
laugh. And despite the fact he's writing about a time at the turn of the
19th and 20th century, he is certainly writing about the America we know
and love today...replete with corporate greed, political malaise,
"fecklessness", and other ignoble American traits.

CB:
The Pynchon list is quite wonderful & worthwhile,
though the level of flame wars on it make BA Newmus
seem like a diplomat's paradise.

PG:
Well, once I read your post I went right out and subscribed to it - I
look forward to dodging prosaic bullets with you in the near future.

--- Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I'll join the queue and chime in to say Breakfast of
> Champions and
> Slaughterhouse 5 were the first two I came upon (in
> the early 70's, not
> far behind Slusser for once) and they were truly
> inspiring. I was
> already a reader, but those books got me even more
> excited about reading
> and thinking. And yes David, the morality that
> washes over those
> extremely entertaining and though-provoking
> books...where is it now?
> 
> I'll over look Chris' nag on Pynchon (because
> Against the Day, his new
> book, ROCKS) - I'm sad to say I didn't even know
> there was a "Pynchon
> list" - (but of course, everything awaits you in the
> online paradise).
> But I think I read Crying of Lot 49 not long after
> Breakfast of
> Champions - and both those books, along with
> Magister Ludi, somehow made
> me very glad to be alive and able to read (in high
> school - a time when
> many of us take a break from caring about the
> written word).
> 
> I'm always waxing nostalgic, so I don't even need to
> apologize, but
> instead I'll say Goodnight Mother Night, watch your
> fingers in the Cat's
> Cradle on the way to Tralfamadore.
> 
> Raise your glasses, mates...
> 
> Phillip Greenlief
> c/o Evander Music
> PO Box 22158 Oakland, CA
> 94623-9991
> www.evandermusic.com
> 




       
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