MDDM Ch. 78: "Have a Cup, Tim..." 759.29

[cathy ramirez]

Bandwraith sez, 

As if the dead really do persist, even in
  a bottle of wine." [COL49, p99, H&R, '86, '90.]

&

Half a communion's better than none, eh?
  And a nice gesture, by Wick's, reaching out
  to the half-present Tox, no? Tim is grateful
  enough:
"...the Poet nodding in thanks." [759.ultimate]

Funny. ain't it? Gotta love Wicks. No one has uncorked
a bottle in some time. When Tim and his unchosen
arrive, Wicks opens his brother-in-law's best Sercial.
 his brother-in-law can't be to pleased with this.
Wicks playing Jesus to this communion (wedding) of the
builder's cast aways become the  cornerstone of
subjunctive Mobility (Psalms, Luke, Probaly Matt.
too). The wine comes from Madeira. And I can't help
but think that Pynchon is working with those
transparancies again, palimpsest...&Co. here. 
Whatever enigmata errupts... Tenebrae's candle ends
enigmata & the mechanical duck's Enigmata of the
Invisible World  ...and eels where bones, drums
incense, bowls pass. 

The Madeira Archipelago boasts a cultural and folklore
tradition that may be quite enviable: the years of
study and planning to the New World by Christopher
Columbus on Porto Santo, to the ancient rhythms of
Guanchos or African slaves in their dance and music,
to the immense wealth amassed by sugar merchants who
brought Madeira one of the finest collections of
Flemish school sixteenth century art, to the
remarkable production of the long lasting Madeira
Wine. Madeira has found itself in an inconspicuous and
inadvertent way a proper stepping stone and melting
pot for the New World of the latter half of the second
millennium. The Madeiran authorities have over the
past few decades made an effort to remind the
historical and nostalgia enthusiast or the public in
general the important role and impact Madeira had in
the eras gone by. Today,
many of the best museums are private legacies, or
interactive new museums with virtual reality
or didactic functions.

As incongruous as it may seem, the Museums in Madeira
help impress the visitor that Madeira
acted as a reflection and sometimes as a portal or
touchstone to events and trends that appeared
in the rest of the world. Especially, the New World.

Darwin, Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da
Gama.....

Gotta go find my Irish runaway husband now, burdens
and losses indeed. 

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