This is a CIA publication, after all. Ignored by his parents, the youngest Bach's professional obscurity grew in direct proportion to his professional output. Thanks to Prof. Schickele, though, PDQ Bach's music lives again, and we can still thrill to his compositions for rapper and harpsichord, nose flute, windbreaker, slide whistle and bicycle. We can delight in his Minuet Militaire, Oedipus Tex, Pervertimento for bagpipes, and ballet in one selfless act. Here's an idea - don't talk ideas, but memes, those terribly au courant little buggers that are to our minds and culture what genes are to our biology.
Ideas are good or bad - memes, on the other hand, mutate, infect and survive.
Brodie used to swap memes with a guy named Gates and authored MS Word. Might not be a bad place to pick up an infection. Most discussion about film noir centers on cinematography or the archetypal antiheroes who populate its frames. Fans of noir will enjoy John Blaser's essays on the genre. Entertaining and plausible throughout, the essays strike just the right note - scholarly but not pretentious.