AtDtDA23: It Had Rained in the Night

[Mark Kohut]

On 11/28/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Creede, Colorado
>
> "It's day all day in the day time, And there is no night in Creede."
>
> http://www.creede.com/creede.htm

"It's always night, or we wouldn't need light." - Thelonious Monk

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Epigraph
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114238

> "where there was still some mercy to the light"

Sorry, things I THOUGHT I'd included, but ...

I'm itching for an argument.....I'll be a boxing dummy you can all punch out.

But I am going to sorta repeat one of my themes here, because the quote about
Creede MAY show my theme interestingly................................

TRPs vision of being human in AtD involves the natural rhythms and such and more.
Which means a natural night and day, which the electric lights and 24/7 working mines
of Creede no longer have.........Much worse than Times Square or Vegas now but akin.
And electric lights are merciless.................................

I think the Monk epigraph has the usual meaning of "we live in constant ignorance, constant darkness 
so we need some light shed on it"...
One might gloss Monk's line as like unto the Biblical "let there be light".....into the blackness of the void....


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