DeLisle

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Delisle was involved in the discovery of Halley's Comet, according to a
brief and hurried glance at the Cambridge History of Astronomy on a
bookstore shelf a while ago; I think it said Delisle predicted the 
comet's
appearance on its return from going around the Sun.
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ya want connections, how 'bout this:  there was a girl who's name I dare 
not speak, who I most crazily fell in perpetual love a few hundred years 
ago here in the womb of melting apples, and was the lass who introduced 
me to the weird worlds of Thomas Pynchon.  I am perpetually in debt to 
her for this.  She now lives in Philadelphia, scene of much wonder in M&D 
(ya know those Philly girls, puts them Cape Town distaff Brady Vrooms to 
shame).  Mason searches the skies and sees his long lost love Rebecca in 
the transit of Halley's Comet.  Guess what my lost love nickname is:  
Lisle.  I still search the skies, watching the past as light, for her.  
Charles, when I sing the body electric, and loosen this tellurich? bond 
from my brow, boy, will we be able to swap some stories.
creepily
(there's also an obscure French poet of the same name, I believe).

self-convicted of a crime I daresay, I may be innocent (thanks Ruth)
Richard (Mopery) Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org