From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #550 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, April 28 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 550 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Question about Gravity's Rainbow ["Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Question about Gravity's Rainbow Accidentally sent this just to Steve. Here's another site that has this story, but gets the song wrong: This is not the first time the 37th President has shown up in Pynchonbs fiction. In 1972, the writer selected a quote from Joni Mitchellbs song "The Circle Game" to use as the epigraph to the final section of Gravitybs 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). http://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2009/07/pynchon-in-nixonland/ See also: http://alturl.com/e4y7z - -----Original Message----- From: Richard Flynn [mailto:rflynn@frontiernet.net] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:24 PM To: 'Steve Dulson' Subject: RE: Question about Gravity's Rainbow http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_617-626 bShe 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 b And shebs so busy being freeb&.b b Joni Mitchell. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Steve Dulson Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:28 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Question about Gravity's Rainbow > From: srobe444@aol.com > Subject: Question about Gravity's Rainbow > For those of you who have read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the fourth > part of the book begins with the epigram "What?", attributed to Richard Nixon. > > The early galleys, and in fact the advance reviewer copies, had a > quote from Joni Mitchell's Cactus Tree... > Anyway, can anyone shed further light on what the quote was or > anything else on Joni's brush with post-modernist literature? I'm a huge Pynchon fan, and love Gravity's Rainbow, but was unaware of any Joni connection. I love the fact that his first book was called V, and his second (major) book was about the V2, but called something else. *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:28:59 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: RIP Richie Havens + More Photos Here's some more photos of Joni with Richie you might like to see: Madison Square Garden 1975 http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/detail.cfm?id=1425 and Miami Pop Festival 1968 http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/detail.cfm?id=1215 Laura .....NJC Below........ FREE Pepsi Next Coupon Available Now! Spin the Wheel. https://www.wheeloflevy.com/en/ From: Kevin Foehr Subject: Re: RIP Richie Havens In case you missed it on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=502401453142323&set=a.305727079476429 .64861.182518505130621&type=1&theater Joni, Richie, Joan and Bob. Wow! How fortunate we were to have such musicians in those days! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:21:21 -0600 From: Lori Renee Fye Subject: (NJC) Another groovy thing to do with regard to using the JMDL ... ... is to change the subject line of your post when you're replying to a discussion thread that you received via digest. In other words, rather than letting the subject line continue to say something like "Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #500," change the subject line so it indicates the actual subject of the discussion. For example: "Trimming your replies (NJC)". This serves two purposes. The first is that we can all easily see, at a glance, what you're discussing. The second is that, if the content is NJC, a subject line that says "Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #500" does not include the NJC tag and, therefore, the NJC filter won't work. That means that your NJC post ends up going to people who don't want to receive NJC emails. The easiest way to change the subject line is to copy and paste the subject of the discussion into the subject space (rather than typing it manually). Thanks, Lori in Idaho ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #550 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------