Happy Columbus Day!
Robert Mahnke
rpmahnke at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 11:50:27 CDT 2010
For those of you in South Dakota, happy Native American Day!
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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
>
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