Occupying History

[Bled Welder]

Down at The Coped Withal we battered poor let the candied tongue drink absurd pomp, and advance with good spirits.

> Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 20:54:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: Occupying History
> From: alicewellintown at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> Coe notes that readers, even professional readers, have either ignored
> or misread P's essay because they prefer a secular P.
> 
> In Hamlet's language, P has a tongue in his cheek, even if that cheek
> is as chopfallen as the skull of the man of infinte jest, and even if
> P, who doubts what a piece of work man is, doubts not that dreams
> won't come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
> 
> Once dead we will never dream again, though we may be dreamed of; we
> may haunt the dreams of others.
> 
> This is, of course what Bartleby Occupies. He occupies Wall Street
> though he sleeps with counselors and kings in the Tombs, he continues
> to haunt the lawyer narrator who tells us the story of Bartleby, a
> Story of Wall Street.
 		 	   		  
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