Not P but Joni

[Mark Kohut]

IF it was just four lines, as I remember with no basis,
then I suggest it was the four beginning with 'so the years spin by"....
makes lots of thematic sense.

Lyrics
Yesterday a child came out to wander
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, "When you're older" must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game
16 springs and 16 summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
And they tell him, "Take your time, it won't be long now
'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down"
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game
So the years spin by and now the boy is 20
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game
And go round and round and round, in the circle game

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:20 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2009/07/pynchon-in-nixonland/
>
> *In 1972, [Thomas Pynchon] 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). Reportedly, his
> publisher could not secure permission to use the quote (which appeared in
> the advance galleys of the book), so at the last minute Pynchon inserted
> instead the single word "What?" and attributed it to RN (who also appears
> in the last pages of that book under the name Richard M. Zhlubb).*
>
> *What? - Richard M. Nixon*
> The uncorrected proofs of *Gravity's Rainbow* sent in advance to book
> critics featured a different epigraph here. source
> <http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=15378>. Instead of the Nixon quote,
> it used the following:
>
>
> *“She has brought them to her senses, *
> *They have laughed inside her laughter, *
> *Now she rallies her defenses, *
> *For she fears someone will ask her *
> *For eternity — *
> *And she’s so busy being free….” — Joni Mitchell.*
>
> These lyrics come from the song "Cactus Tree," from Mitchell's 1968 album,
> "Song To A Seagull." Full lyrics and sample at (fansite) Jonimitchell.com
> <http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=84>.
>
> https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_617-626&oldid=2810
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't remember, if I ever knew.....Let's find out;
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 3:20 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Which lines? Which song?
>> >
>> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:11:25 -0400
>> >   Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > You might have seen the NYT and other mags doing their
>> > >tributes to the 50th
>> > > anniversary of Joni Mitchell's great *Blue. *
>> > > Her lawyers fiercely protected the unauthorized
>> > >appearance of any of her
>> > > words and songs (or parts of). Some of you will remember
>> > > that four lines of a song had to be removed from*
>> > >Gravity's Rainbow *because of
>> > > her. .
>> > > But today she has just offered *Blue *again to all of us
>> > >in Spotify.
>> > >
>> > > Thank you, Joni.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://open.spotify.com/album/1vz94WpXDVYIEGja8cjFNa?referral=labelaffiliate&utm_source=1101lhfRzFoH&utm_medium=Warner_RhinoRecordsUS&utm_campaign=labelaffiliate
>> > > --
>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> --
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>>
>