ATD paperback cover

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/29/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Remember Pound and Eliot's relationship and TRPs love (and
> homages) to Eliot).

And recall as well ...

"White faces, like diseased blooms, bobbed along in the dark" (V., Ch.
9, Sec. i, p. 244)

"The men inside the auction room wore black mohair and had pale, cruel
faces." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 183)

"dark shapes ... showing now and then as a flash" (AtD, Pt. III, p. 434 f.)

Cf. ...

Ezra Pound, "In the Station of the Metro" (1913)

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/pound3.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54053

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59200

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114376

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=121150

> But as AtD cover, I see the painting as akin to the von Braun epigraph in
> GR........intended and ironic at the same time (if that makes sense)?.....

This was my intuition as well.  How anyone cannot laugh at the arch
irony of that GR epigraph is beyond me.  But then there's the UK cover
...

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/purchase/buy.htm?isbn=0099512335