A digression...

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>

>I've long pondered the possible connection between Pynchon & Dylan.

[...]

>There are a *lot* of 60s musicians named in
>'Vineland', though not Dylan. Paradoxically, there are what seem to be a
>number of Dylan references sprinkled through that book, eg. Dylan's
>"another lifetime, one of toil and blood" (from Shelter From The Storm)
>perhaps influencing Pynchon's "in our world of toil and blood".

>From John Adams' letter to his wife on the eve of American Indepence in 
1776:

You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware 
of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this 
Declaration, and support and defend these states. . . . I can see that the 
end is more than worth all the means. And that posterity will triumph in 
that day's transaction . . .

>From "Hail, Columbia" (the first American national anthem, music composed in 
1789, lyrics added in 1798):

Immortal patriots, rise once more,
Defend your rights, defend your shore!
Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
Let no rude foe, with impious hand,
Invade the shrine where sacred lies
Of toil and blood, the well-earned prize,
While off'ring peace, sincere and just,
In Heaven's we place a manly trust,
That truth and justice will prevail,
And every scheme of bondage fail.

>From "The Mask of Anarchy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819):

What if English toil and blood
Was poured forth, even as a flood?
It availed, Oh, Liberty,
To dim, but not extinguish thee.

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