Happy Columbus Day!

[Dave Monroe]

"In the .15 dark green from the 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue
('Columbus Announcing His Discovery'), the faces of three courtiers,
receiving the news at the right-hand side of the stamp, had been
subtly altered to express uncontrollable fright." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p.
174)

http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/6/pynchon/lot6.htm
http://www.english.pomona.edu/pomo/project1/nelan/lot49txt.html

   "'By the time of Columbus, God's project of Disengagement was
obvious to all,-- with the terrible understanding that we were to be
left more and more to our own solutions.'" (M&D, Ch. 50, p. 486)

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_quotes.html