AtDDtA(15): What if They Weren't Harmonica Players?

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Dave Monroe requested help, but I could only offer:

> "the vast undiscriminating light of the Sky"
>
> This strikes me as possibly a new yet important trope for Pynchon. Help!

harkens back though, to the proverbial
[things that] "won't stand the light of day"
shady business indeed


> "Perhaps even surrogates recruited to stay behind on the ground,
> allowing the 'real' Chums to take to the Skies and so escape some
> unbearable situation? [...] the Chums had needed them ... they came"

cf Saeure Bummer, "when you're this high, and
you need somebody, they just show up"