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PETER GORDON: Innocent (CBS). JOHN ZORN: The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (Nonesuch/Icon). Not for the squeamish -- or at least not for those who think serious music is something best carried on quietly by consenting adults in the privacy of a concert hall. Gordon, 35, and Zorn, 33, are both members of Manhattan's explosive avant-garde art-rock scene, reveling in hot-wired Farfisas, electric guitars, saxophones and synthesizers. But, as David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent...
...Zorn Willow Springs...
Like Schopenhauer, Zorn comes to believe that disease is the will speaking through the body. Cancer is thus a single illness that manifests itself both physically and psychologically. Like medieval physicians, who thought that health was a balance of humors, he maintains that well-being is not a quality per se, but a form of equilibrium. Ergo, cancer is not a cause of unbalance but a consequence. In the final sections of the book, Zorn, 32, obviously failing in energy and spirit,' takes the advice of Job's comforter: to curse heaven and die. The Almighty...
After leaving the university, he develops a tumor on his neck. Without seeing a doctor he diagnoses the lump as the accumulation of "swallowed tears." It is confirmation that if a person suppresses his suffering, he will be devoured by the suffering buried within. When Zorn finally consults a physician, a more clinical diagnosis is offered: the growth is malignant. Cancer comes as something of a relief; the pain and suffering finally have a name...
...Fritz Zorn is a pseudonym, chosen spitefully and well. In German, Zorn means anger. This rancorous testament is the work of a sensitive mind slowly unhinged, a desolate howl against the inhuman condition. It is a sound familiar to doctors. Occasionally, if the writer is skilled enough, laymen can hear it. In Mars even the whispers are deafening. -By Richard Stengel