For those who were unable to attend Dave Monroe's funeral
Jemmy Bloocher
jbloocher at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 12:25:44 CST 2015
Wonderful Eileen. Many thanks for sharing this with us. He's left a deep
Dave-shaped hole and I'm sure all of us are painfully aware of it daily
On 12 Dec 2015 17:40, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this, Eileen. A fitting choice for a Pynchon fan. We all miss
> Dave terribly.
>
> Laura, on behalf of the Whole Sick (Pynchon)Crew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Eileen Pierce
>
> Sent: Dec 12, 2015 8:32 AM
>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> Cc: Eileen Pierce
>
> Subject: For those who were unable to attend Dave Monroe's funeral
>
>
>
> 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 lowFind 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 MountainsideAnd a Soul in ev’ry stone . . .
>
> Now Everybody —“
> —Thomas Pynchon (1973)
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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