Vine of Sodom

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

"On a la lune, Quand on est brune..." -Boris Vian

I hope all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. For reasons not exact;y clear to me I've taken upon myself to re-read Gravity's Rainbow. It shouldn't be much of a mystery as it is one of my favorite books (Houellebecq's Elementary Particles & Celine's Death on Credit with Herodotus's Histories being thrown in for good measure) but the Pokler passage has always moved me... In my younger days quite often to tears... Lost love and the thought about what might have been (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03_KcrY7vcw)... Mind fucked by employers... and lost in technical abstraction... though probably not quite to the extent of our protagonist, but I'm sure most of us have had to deal with Weissmann-like creatures in our day-to-day...

""The Moon..." as if he were going to tell a story. When none followed she made up her own. The engineer in the next cubicle had a map of the Moon tacked to his fiberboard wall, and she spent hours studying it, deciding where she wanted to live. Passing over the bright rays of Kepler, the rugged solitude of the Southern Highlands, the spectacular views at the Copernicus and Eratosthenes, she chose a small pretty crater in the Sea of Tranquility called Maskelyne B. They would build a house right on the rim. Mutti and she and Pokler, gold mountains out one window and the wide sea out the other. And Earth green and blue in the sky..."

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