What's with all the songs?

>>8605057
Ask Shakespeare... or the radio.

I don't know, OP. It's real weird, he just...

Wait a second, do you hear that?

(The beat to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" starts playing)

What is that?

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Look—how can, one man, be so fucking epic,
To send a man down the toilet in a war novel.
Could it be magic? Or is it genius?
Yo

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His prose is heady, themes bleak, bombs are steady
Please get the awards ready, this author ain’t deady
He’s furthest, from the pop-culture armageddon
He's a recluse with a purpose and you're far from gettin'
What he wrote down, the whole sky screams so loud
He opens his mouth but the turd won’t go down
He’s chokin’ now, the whole book’s broken now
His cock’s gone up, take cover, explosion - Pow!
Snap back to hilarity, oh, there’s goes gravity
Oh, there’s goes Pynchon, he’s dope, he’s so rad but he
won’t give up irony, nope, he’s old-fashioned, he knows
that David Wallace destroyed his whole faction, he smokes
He’s high daily, it shows, he’s so batshit, he trolls
The /lit/ board as his games download patches
It goes, he plays Crysis on Ult with no crashes
He better go pick up a pen and write ‘fore he passes

>>8605436
I liked it.

>>8605436
solid

How are you fuckers this new

>>8605431
>>8605433
What ?

He strikes again

>>8606390
He scares me

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Have I told you, fella
She’s got the sweetest columella
And a septum that’s swept ’em all on their ass;
Each casual chondrectomy
Meant only a big fat check to me
Till I sawed this osteoclastible lass:

[Refrain]:
Till you’ve cut into Esther
You’ve cut nothing at all;
She’s one of the best, Thir,
To her nose I’m in thrall.

She never acts nasty
But lies still as a rock;
She loves my rhinoplasty
But the others are schlock.

Esther is passive,
Her aplomb is massive,
How could any poor ass’ve
Ever passed her by?

And let me to you say
She puts Ireland to shame;
For her nose is retroussé
And Esther’s her name….

For the last eight bars she chanted “No” on one and three.

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>>8605436
>oh, there goes gravity
>he won't give up irony

>>8605436
Top notch work.

>>8605057
I believe the most popular academic explanation going right now is that he took Brecht's idea to heart, that he reduces a situation to such depths of the absurd and grotesque that there's no other way to progress than to sing. His songs are exceptionally bad, though. I think he does that on purpose, though I haven't read M&D or AtD yet. Anyone have any examples from that?

Also, and this isn't completely on topic, but I remember one of my old drinking buddies remarking that the Beatles' old band name (before they settled on "The Beatles") was The Paranoids.

>>8605057
I don't know what Pynchon intended, but I've always connected it with how singing/music can bring you out of a bad trip.

>>8607684
>Brecht's idea to heart
This, the idea of distancing the reader from the story.

In Bleeding Edge, incidentally, he jokingly references a "Neo-Brechtian" film IIRC

>>8605436
10/10

>>8605436
Nice, senpai.

>>8605436
Toasting in epic bread.

>>8605431
>>8605433
>>8605436

top lol

>>8607684
>>8607850
Can you be more specific about this idea? I'd like to read more about it.

>>8605057
I took it as pretty much
>>8607684
Gravity's Rainbow was pretty much about the idea and nature of control, and how useless it is to resist, and especially I think the ending is where it really clicked for me as to why the songs were so prevalent. The story tells you at the ending that there's a rocket about to crash over your head and there's nothing much to do but to sing. I took the songs in Gravity's Rainbow specifically as embracing the lack of control. You know, Tommy's whole hippy "Keep cool, but care" vibe.

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>>8605436