Pynchon in Nixonland

[Robin Landseadel]

	. . .This is not the first time the 37th President has shown up in
	Pynchon’s fiction. In 1972, the writer selected a quote from Joni
	Mitchell’s song "The Circle Game" to use as the epigraph to the
	final section of Gravity’s Rainbow (at that stage still titled Mindless
	Pleasures). . .

Steven Weisenburger says the quote was from "Cactus Tree":

	She has brought them to her senses,
	They have laughed inside her laughter,
	Now she rallies her defenses, For she fears that one will ask her
	For eternity
	And she's so busy being free.

On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Joni Mitchell, who is part of the GR story here, probably taken from  
> that note on the pynchonwiki, is famous for refusing permission for  
> all attempted quotes from her songs....
>
> At a company I was with, we had to scrap a first printing of a  
> decent but
> udner-the-radar novel because a Joni Mitchell chapter epigraph had  
> not been cleared in time---and was refused.

> --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Pynchon in Nixonland
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:19 AM
>>
>> http://thenewnixon.org/2009/07/31/pynchon-in-nixonland/