Nobody & Everybody

[Terrance]

Bantam GR.664, Penguin GR.570

"Materializing from their own weird office silence, the
coppers show up now....
nobody gonna claim any of it, everybody scared now."

Nobody ('s) going to claim any of it, everybody('s ) scared
now. ?? 

What kinda english is that, Pynchon? 

The Russians look at Slothrop Providentially, think he's a
deserter, He thinks their right. 

Everybody scared now? Nobody gonna?  Are these Keystone
coppers? Are these U.S. National Guard? Are these 16th
century soldiers come to massacre the rebellious faithful
descendants of those that worshipped a soul in every stone?
Is Terry Reilly on to it? Is Milton relevant here?  Are
these "post-war"  "Allies"? Are these Germans, Yanks, Brits,
Russians?  What Russians? Asiatic? What germans? The HEAT?
The Capitalists white and black?  Roman Catholics &
Protestants? Weber?  American white market protectors
wielding clubs and fire hoses and german shepherds? What
history is this, Pynchon? 


On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered Saints, whose bones 
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; 
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, 
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones, 
Forget not: in thy book record their groans 
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold 
Slain by the bloody Piemontese, that rolled 
Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans 
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they 
To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow 
O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway 
The triple Tyrant; that from these may grow 
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, 
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.