<<I seem to've missed the first few emails on this topic -- has anyone mentioned Pynchon's "The Paranoids" from CoL49?>> I was going to mention Pynchon. There's a substantial musical influence on his short story, "Entropy," and there's TONS of musical happening in the brilliant "Gravity's Rainbow" (a long passage regarding a church choir, two characters discussion of Rossini vs Beethoven, and a freewheeling scene in a jazz club bathroom are just some that spring to mind, not to mention the constant bursting into song his narrative style does). I think people on this list should read Pynchon simply for his reliance on structure, with his playful use of language. Brilliant stuff, all of it. _________________________________________________________________ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es