why is breaking out into song such a staple of modernist and postmodenrist literature
it seems forced to me honestly, like everyone in fitzgerald's time was just copying joyce (i can believe joyce did it because drunk irishmen sing alot) and then the guys like barth and pynchon were mimicking them in some self consciously 'literary' choice
>>8055315
Because singing is fun
You never break out into a song with friends?
I used to hang with these friends that would break into song at random.
It was fucking terrible it was like being on the goddamn Disney channel
>>8055320
with the exception of the rare singing along to something on the radio, no. you do? what do you even sing?
>they start singing wizard of oz in Hyperion
>>8055350
Keats was ahead of his time.
That's what I hate about Gravity's Rainbow.
>>8055400
Of all the book's provocations, experimentations, and amateurish blunders that's what you hate? That the characters sing sometimes?
>>8055401
The others stuff was engaging, the singing just made me feel uncomfortable.
>>8055315
You have no idea what you're talking about. Joyce used music because he was originally a singer before he was a writer.
Pinecone was in the Navy for a few years and one of the running themes in all of his books is an appreciation for seafaring traditions and culture, which involves sea shanties.
