Our New Deathkingdom

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Walter Cronkite, requiescat in pace; Ad Astra per Aspera ....
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgllSrCo7Fg
>
>   "Its the cycle over now, and a new one ready to begin?  Will our
> new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be the Moon? I dream of a great glass
> sphere, hollow and very high and far away ... the colonists have
> learned to do without air, it's vacuum inside and out [...] Inside the
>  colony, the handful of men have a frosty appearance , hardly solid,
> no more alive than memories, nothing to touch . . . only their remote
> images, black  and white film-images, grained ..."
>
> --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Pt. IV, p. 723

Also, thanks, to give credit where credit's due, to Mean Mr. Morris et al. ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48652
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48654
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48670

... though I'm now equipped to challenge you to a cane-waving
young-people-scolding duel ...