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| + | Books with sheet music, usually jazz standard repertoire. Wikipedia sez: "A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics - the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or 'fake it.'"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book] | ||
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This might refer to summer events at the [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Lenox/lenhome.htm Lenox School of Jazz] in Lenox, MA, which existed 1957-1960. | This might refer to summer events at the [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Lenox/lenhome.htm Lenox School of Jazz] in Lenox, MA, which existed 1957-1960. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:14, 16 October 2014
- Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.
492-page edition / 547-page edition
286/312 - Mazel tov.
Hebrew phrase meaning "Good luck"
291/317 - fakebooks
Books with sheet music, usually jazz standard repertoire. Wikipedia sez: "A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics - the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or 'fake it.'"[1]
292/318 - heading up for Lenox, Mass., for that jazz festival
This might refer to summer events at the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox, MA, which existed 1957-1960.
From Pynchon's short story The Secret Integration:
- Mr. McAfee was a bass player, but without his instrument. He'd been over in Lenox at some music festival. [1]
References
- ↑ Pynchon, Thomas, Slow Learner, Jonathan Cape, 1985, p. 170
| Chapter 1 In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir 9/1 |
Chapter 2 The Whole Sick Crew 44/39 |
Chapter 3 In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations 61/59 |
Chapter 4 In which Esther gets a nose job 95/97 |
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| Chapter 5 In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator 111/115 |
Chapter 6 In which Profane returns to street level 134/141 |
Chapter 7 She hangs on the western wall 152/161 |
Chapter 8 In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz 213/229 |
| Chapter 9 Mondaugen's story 229/247 |
Chapter 10 In which various sets of young people get together 280/305 |
Chapter 11 Confessions of Fausto Maijstral 304/333 |
Chapter 12 In which things are not so amusing 347/385 |
| Chapter 13 In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind 367/407 |
Chapter 14 V. in love 393/437 |
Chapter 15 Sahha 415/461 |
Chapter 16 Valletta 424/471 |
| Epilogue, 1919 456/507 |
