Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet was a book by Michael Moorcock. Jenny Everywhere had a copy of it on her shelf in the Collapsed Cosmos. On Page 704, she once found an extract of The Condition of Muzak which she found strangely relevant to the state of the Collapsed Cosmos and the decay of the Multiverse:

“Perhaps it did have something to do with losing his faith in rock music. The best performers had either died, decayed or fractured, leaving behind them a vocabulary of musical ideas, lyrical techniques, and subject matter, styles and body languages which had never been given the opportunity to mature but which had, instead, been aped by the very world of Showbiz against which they had originally revolted. And everything else was just the same–a load of oily entrepreneurs…”

—Cornelius Quartet

It prompted further reflections from Jenny about what place the Multiverse occupied in the minds of the 21st-century people of the Collapsed Cosmos. (PROSE: The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)

Behind the scenes

In the introduction, Jeanne Morningstar cited the Quartet as an inspiration for The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere itself.