VL--IV, "a gig of death" or Don't Take the Piano Player!

[Mark Kohut]

p. 60, "a gig of death" ..."The list of passengers who arrived was not always identical to the list of those who'd departed". Hmm, like some 'souls" departed and different 'new' souls arrived?  

"Something was happening, in between, up there." Bardo state=in-between state in Tibetan Buddhism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo. 
Mentioned overtly on p. 364 of Vineland.

Let me see if I have this right: The "Priestly' Airlines, which is "always hiring', which flies non-skeds into the East Imperial Terminal, hires Zoyd as piano player on this 'gig of death'where 'the departed' do not match the arrivals because something happened, in between, up there? Old news or More Kute Korrespondences? 
   
Just Cf. (as a loose association, not a bardo state allusion, this from M & D):  "'twere the Point upon which was being daily projected some great linear summing of Human Incompletion,--fail'd Arrivals, Departures too soon, misstated Intentions, truncations of Desire."