Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 2003/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] floor hamsters-was Oops!!
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:33:25 -0400

At 10:57 PM 4/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >> Raycraft wrote:
> >> > TOILET HAMSTERS?
> >> > ~Sue (again)
> >
> >> Of course. What else do you think the sewer alligators eat? :-)
> >
>Thank you for clearing that up for me, Mark. I had no idea.
> Sue

Well, since Mark hasn't put a stop this yet...:-). Thomas Pynchon's first
novel (c. 1963), entitled "V" (Vee, not Five), has an episode in which one
of the main characters, Benny Profane (I think it's supposed to be
pronounced in the Italian style, Pro-FAH-nay) gets a temp job as an
alligator hunter in the New York sewers. Out of this Pynchon spins the
legend of a Catholic priest named Fr. Fairing who went down into the sewers
to minister to the 'gators, one of whom--I believe he named her
Veronica--became his disciple.

What has this to do with music? Well, one of the other characters is a
big-time jazz saxophonist named McClintic Sphere, and he plays a plastic
alto. I think he's supposed to suggest Ornette Coleman.

He doesn't get involved with the alligators, however.

Ken

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an affliction. It evens out.
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