Against the Day, at Night

[Ya Sam]

The scene on St. Mark's as midnight approached was, well, a scene out of a 
Pynchon novel: A sect converging for the release of a prophecy from their 
mysterious leader. Here are a few characters from the evening:

• Ed Kabak strode in around eleven and announced: "The hour approaches." He 
quickly reported that he had already read 200 pages of the novel, having 
illicitly purchased it from an undisclosed location. Attorney by trade, poet 
by predilection, and member in good standing of the Finnegan's Wake Society, 
Kabak pulled out a two-page poem he had composed for the occasion:

At the stroke of the hour there lifted embargo
As the shrink wrap crinkled then snapped
Kakutani, John Leonard, and Mendelsohn's cargo
Were delivered to them as they napped

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