Unrelated Lothrops

[Dave Monroe]

Well, my life has always struck me as Beckettian,
though perhaps not positively so ... but it's all I
can do to not find me some Beckett List as well, spend
ALL my time online.  And I'm curious if anyone else
here is familiar with Kobo Abe, who I think would be a
natural in this crowd, perhaps even more so than
Haruki Murakami (not to be confused with Ryu Marakami,
who might also be of interest nonetheless.  Osamu
Dazai?  Let me know ...) ...

Anyway, I'm with Slothenvypride (reminds me of the
woman who named her daughetrs after the most beautiful
names in the Bible: SyPHILlis and GoNORrhea), good
call, that adjacent gravestone is not unreminiscent of
what seems to be Pynchon's penchant for making
recourse to cognates of various words, even words just
plain nearby other words on the dictionary page.  See,
of course, Charles Hollander on this.  The ol' "Magic
Eye" is alive and well, even in yr antique graveyards
...

--- Al X <boggle_king at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
> "John Lothropp has been ranked as one of the four
> most prominent colonial ministers in America.  His
> spiritual and political strength not only was 
> emulated by his sons and daughters, but has been
> evidenced in the lives of thousands of his
> descendants in the past four centuries They include 
> presidents of the United States, a prime minister of
> Canada, authors, financiers,  politicians, and last
> but certainly not least, key leaders among religious
> groups throughout the centuries and spanning the
> continent."
> "Biography of John Lothrop (1584-1653)", by Richard
> Price

> think: Slothrop's connection to the founders of the
> nation

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