Monk's motto or: Is Against the Day in favour of the Night?

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Paul Mackin:
> What do we suppose Thelonius himself meant by the statement? Was he
> being mystical, as he was wont to be at times? The Buddhist Monk.
>
> Or, more likely it was a hip, poetic way of expressing the fairly
> ordinary idea that the world is everlastingly in need of
> enlightenment--or joy? Which he was surely attempting to supply with
> his music.
>
> If such had been Pynchon's interpretation, the epigraph could have
> expressed, among other things, the writer's intention to do with
> science, math, political theory, and other learned shit what Monk was
> doing with music.
>

Luca Zombini, p 354:
"Remember, God didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now,' 
he said, "Let there be light.'  His first act was to 
*allow light in* to what had been Nothing.  Like God,
you also have to always work with the light, make it
do only what you want it to."
..."Factory inspections are merciless."