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

[alice malice]

No poetic dwelling here for Heidegger
where music and murder make a marriage.


CALIBAN
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked,
I cried to dream again.
The Tempest 3.2.148-156



On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>> 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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