Iskender Savasir wrote: >Tidbit on Pynchon- He is a Rossini fan, so far as I know. The more >or less famous quote form the Gravity's Rainbow comparing Beethoven >9th with Rossini had greeted my local intranet users for months. Here is another Pynchon tidbit. I was a graduate student in physics at Cornell in the late fifties and lived with three other physics students on the ground floor of a big house. The upper floors were occupied by other students, including Pynchon, still an undergraduate, I believe. One of my apartment mates, J.J. Sakurai, was a modern music enthusiast, and one day was playing an LP of Webern orchestral music as I recall. We rarely saw Pynchon, but on this occasion he came down to inquire about the music, asking if it was by Charles Mingus. This was well before Pynchon was a well known author - perhaps a decade before the publication of "The Crying of Lot 69" which I believe was his first novel. Incidentally physicists on this list may recognize Sakurai as the author of the best modern quantum mechanics text available. He was a brilliant theorist doing cutting edge research even as a graduate student. He died way too early, and the text was assembled out of notes he left behind. Bernard Chasan *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html