Never Learn Not to Love

[Mark Kohut]

In Chapter 1, Doc riffs on "love": 

page 5: "With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way overused. Anyone with any claim to hipness "loved' everybody, not to mention other useful applications, like hustling people into sex activities they might not, given the choice, much care to engage in."

--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Never Learn Not to Love
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 8:01 AM
> The Beach Boys, "Never Learn Not to
> Love" (1968)
> 
> Cease to resist, come on say you love me
> Give up your world, come on and be with me
> I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see
> 
> Come on come on, ooo I love you pretty girl
> My life is yours, and you can have my world
> I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see
> 
> Never had a lesson I ever learned
> I know I could never learn not to love you
> Come in now closer
> Come in closer closer closer ahhhh
> 
> Submission is a gift given to another
> Love and understanding is for one another
> I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see
> 
> Never had a lesson I ever learned
> I know I could never learn not to love you
> Come in now closer
> Come in closer come in closer ahhhh
> 
> Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh
> Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0v2bVX8j4
> 
> This song was originally written by Charles Manson and
> titled "Cease
> To Exist." Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson made some minor
> lyrical
> changes to it, which supposedly upset Manson greatly.
> 
> The opening sound was achieved by playing a cymbal
> backwards.
> 
> http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3962
>