We real cool & THE Tombs
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 15:28:01 CDT 2009
We real cool. We Left school. We
Lurk late. We Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We Die soon.
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet
undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real
repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be
unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon
the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if,
at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any
precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the
honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College
and my Harvard.
Nushra's usage may be a bit slip--idy-doo-la-ha-ha-ha, but her grammar
is gooder than yore grammar.
"THE" is the definite article.
Sometimes _THE_ Tombs is an allusion those that do what is only Fun Da
Mental i.e. Read can see even if they ain't got no maj ick op tic tic
tic tick tack goes the Almanac in Elizabeth Bishop's poem, Sestina.
Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop
September rain falls on the house.
In the failing light, the old grandmother
sits in the kitchen with the child
beside the Little Marvel Stove,
reading the jokes from the almanac,
laughing and talking to hide her tears.
She thinks that her equinoctial tears
and the rain that beats on the roof of the house
were both foretold by the almanac,
but only known to a grandmother.
The iron kettle sings on the stove.
She cuts some bread and says to the child,
It's time for tea now; but the child
is watching the teakettle's small hard tears
dance like mad on the hot black stove,
the way the rain must dance on the house.
Tidying up, the old grandmother
hangs up the clever almanac
on its string. Birdlike, the almanac
hovers half open above the child,
hovers above the old grandmother
and her teacup full of dark brown tears.
She shivers and says she thinks the house
feels chilly, and puts more wood in the stove.
It was to be, says the Marvel Stove.
I know what I know, says the almanac.
With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears
and shows it proudly to the grandmother.
But secretly, while the grandmother
busies herself about the stove,
the little moons fall down like tears
from between the pages of the almanac
into the flower bed the child
has carefully placed in the front of the house.
Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.
"Uneasy references," chuckled Dr. Vormance, "I take it to the recent
misfortune of certain Egyptologists imprudent enough to have
penetrated those realms of eternal rest?
"More like due diligence..." AtD.141
So many -----> pointing from this Red Herring Child/Shield.
A red herring prospectus is a document submitted by a company (issuer)
who intends on having a public offering of securities (either stocks
or bonds) in the United States. Most frequently associated with an
Initial Public Offering (IPO), this registration statement must be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).
Rothschild are the red shield arrows for the sons of european finance.
The term "due diligence" first came into common use as a result of the
United States' Securities Act of 1933.
THE Tombs in NYC--Prisons and Courts and Police Stations and Law and
Investment Offices and Gallows where a slave trader, during Morgan's
Governship and Lincoln's Presidency was executed, at 125 White Street.
It was built in a new kinda Egyptian architecture. It was haunted;
Indian burial grounds. It was where soldiers and workers and a lot of
those Irish organizers and draft riot paddys got wagoned to. Major
Enslaved Persons "Commodity & Stock Exchange"
Also a school. First Prison School in the USA. PSA.
Scarsdale Vibe sent his son, that's his son Fleetwood to this Prison
School at the Tombs. Why?
Because Fleetwood (and he is both JP Morgan, H. Hoover, and J
Morgan--JP's daddy, Holgrave and Bartleby ...we'll get to this...)
prefered not to. Not to? Wha? WORK.
A short story Herman Melville published. "A Story or Tale of Wall
Street" (1853) aka "Bartleby the Scrivener"?
Seems reasonable.
I mean, if you are willing to consider this from that working angle.
Woking on it myself here actually so...don't gape...hand me that
fucking thig and that jig and that Frederick Douglass ovah dare.
Melville worked down there. Had that old custom house Hawthorne
political job; after he failed as a novelist and returned to the city
of his birth where his daddy had gone belly-up.
He set Bartleby in the wall street office of a man who works the bond
business for people like Astor. John Jacob Astor.
Not a Rothschild, but an American model for Morgan.
The first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator
of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur
trading, real estate, and opium.[2]
>From humble origins in Germany, he emigrated to London and then to
America following the American Revolutionary War. He built a
fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada,
and later expanded into the American West and Pacific coast. In the
early 1800s he diversified into New York City real estate and later
became a famed patron of the arts.
At the time of his death in 1848, Astor was the wealthiest person in
the United States, leaving an estate estimated to be worth at least
$20 million; according to the latest Forbes rankings, he would have
had an estimated net worth of $110.1 billion in 2006 U.S. dollars,
making him the fourth wealthiest person in American history.[wiki]
The Tombs, circa 1900, were where you would send an insubordiante son
who might have the audacity to prefer not to. To what? Work. To do
what Bartleby did. Refuse to work for "Astor & Co". Bartleby is sent
there and he dies there. He refuses to be a human copy machine. But
this luddite theme is only the tip the icey mast.
Now back to Vibe. Vibe is the Morgan Family and Concern. He's what we
used to call a white shoe FIRM.
But why did Pynchon give all of Webb's kids Morgan connected names and
the Vibe's Politcal Names that add up to the assassination of RFK?
A Joak?
And how do we unravel all these ghosts from THE Tombs?
If Vibe is Morgan, which one is he or is he all of them?
In the dealings with Kit, Vibe is not JP Mortgan, but JP's old man.
He sends Kit to the school JP attended in Germany.
Sing that Rag in G.
Kit wants to go there.
He sends Fleetwood to the Tombs school. Sends Kit to the G school.
Tesla's old man, the holy man, only sent his boy off to school after a
serious illness.
Wanted him to be a holy man; follow in his footsteps.
JP wanted to be a holy man too.
So did Farina.
JP was a sickly lad too.
Farina too.
JP Married a sick girl and she died.
Sick kids, holy old men?
Who you schooling/working for------> The TOMBS.
"This is school Dally--fact it's damn college ..." atd.299
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