MDMD(4) Rapture

[Doug Millison]

142.1 Others told of Rapture by creatures not precisely Angels, nor yet
Demons,-- styl'd "Agents of Altitude."

These guys were in the news today!

     Yemenis Claim Ownership of Mars

     SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Three Yemeni men claiming ownership of Mars
  have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. space agency NASA for
  invading the red planet, the weekly Al-Thawri reported today. It
  said the trio presented documents to Yemen's prosecutor general
  which they said proved their claim to have inherited the planet
  from their ancestors who had lived on Mars years ago. The U.S.
  Pathfinder landed on Mars earlier this month.

This whole passage on pp 141-142, about Bradley's Correspondence, makes me
wonder if, perhaps, in addition to the Historical origins of this passage
for M&D, Pynchon might also be alluding to the kind of mail I can imagine
he might get from the odd reader now and again who imagines himself/herself
tuned in to Pynchon's "frequency"....


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