M&D random thought about L.E.D. and song.

[Mark Kohut]

Just learned this from a footnote in Shakespeare: music was said to
draw the soul from the body!
yeah, we can't prove it, and it is all just suggestive but I say
PYNCHON knows this! Pynchon is
playing with this conceit.

Tell me Doggo do you have a Soul?

Twelfth Night: "Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch [song in
rounds]  that will draw three souls out of one weaver?

this footnote is from the Norton edition of the Oxford editorial
editions of the plays, edited by Wells and Greenblatt, tops and tops.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Breaking into song, even if only metaphorically speaking, is a fine
> human thing?
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nice observation.
>>
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> Sent from Beyond the Zero
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>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It struck me today, as I was re-reading the first three sections to savor the prose, that the first appearance of the Learn'ed English Dog coincides with the first appearance of a SONG in Pynchon's manuscript.
>>>
>>> For some reason, this is the first time that I considered the fact that Pynchon chose this moment to engage in two of his favorite literary habits - habits (prolonged absurdist passages and songwriting) that also happen to be elements of his writing that many people dislike - in one fell swoop. Like he was getting them both out of the way early, or something.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>> MT
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