Pynchons Over Andover

[grladams at teleport.com]

Hi, 
I like the connection between the life of the sunset, I just re-read a
portion of ATD about the life in the waves, the faces that don't go away
from the waves even though they have blended back into the ocean. Maybe AtD
has taught us to appreciate this in a fancy new way, what with the Q math
and the presence of the thin membrane, that we can appreciate and feel
in-the-know about the way souls do pierce through our plane. 

Certain things I've learned is that ancestors are important to us to
understand and appreciate (find a soul in?) geography and history. It may
help to treat one another as our brothers and sisters (in the ideal) -- or
hold grudges (in the corrolary), and all the fun chasms of excluded middles
and changes of sign that I've left out... Desiring to learn about our
ancestors, with the incredible popularity and commodification of our
current family- research "product," reminds me of a religion. Ancestor
worship found both in the future (like on Battlestar Gallactica...) and in
the ancient Greek systems of religion... tracked in popularity to other
statistics, like politics, would it yield a freaky pattern? It would be
interesting to know whether times of passionate ancestor worship can be
tracked, if it's ever been this popular, what happens? Does it bring people
together? Has it ever been unpopular to fuss over family research? If so,
were those times any more or less discordant? All rhetorical quesitons.

Their family is huge. This is a 10 generation American family, kinda rare.
Due diligence on this question would turn more into investigation than
genealogy. People who were born before 1930 are easier to place into the
tree. Keep on googling, or check the usual social self promotion sites,
facebook and linked-in and zoominfo. Tax records and a reverse directory
would be the start, but that's creepy you guys! Hey isn't this a group of
people who are blessed with academic achievement and a sense of place, and
yet aren't people just people?

http://home.teleport.com/~grladams



Original Message:
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From: David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:54:20 -0500
To: scuffling at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Pynchons Over Andover


Are you implying that this David Pynchon is a close relative of TRP?

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> From
> http://www.andover.edu/alumni/documents/2007SummerBulletinClassNote_.pdf:
> "I still remember walking into David Pynchon's summer school English
class and being faced with the essay assignment 'Sunsets at Andover are
truly things with souls.'"
>
> HENRY MUSIKAR
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
>
> http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm

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