For those who were unable to attend Dave Monroe's funeral

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 12:09:01 CST 2015


Yes, Eileen, great thanks.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Eileen Pierce
<eileenpierce333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave chose this text for the back side of his funeral prayer card.  He
> picked an image of St. Michael the Archangel for the front, specifically
> Guido Reni’s Michael tramples Satan.
>
> “Follow the bouncing ball:
>
> There is a Hand to turn the time,
> Though thy Glass today be run,
> Till the Light hath brought the Towers low
> Find the last poor Preterite one . . .
> Till the Riders sleep by ev’ry road,
> All through our crippl’d Zone,
> With a face in ev’ry Mountainside
> And a Soul in ev’ry stone . . .
>
>
> Now Everybody —“
>
> —Thomas Pynchon (1973)
>
>
>
>
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