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[Craig Clark]

Alan Joyce <caj3+ at pitt.edu> asks:

> On a more specifically Pynchonian note: one thing I've often been curious
> about is whether anyone has ever written music for and recorded any of the
> songs in TRP's books -- anybody know?  I have this wish for someone like
> Tom Waits to do a "Gravity's Rainbow" album someday...

There is Laurie Anderson's song "Gravity's Angel" on the _Mr 
Heartbreak_ album, which is dedicated to TRP, and which has a chorus 
of:
  "Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall.
   Gravity's Rainbow.
   Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall.
   Gravity's Angel."

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"