I do not think sleepless mothers, with the implied choice, would lay them down again, still dead. On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 5:02 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote: > - “lay them down” I think is meant reflexively, like “now I lay me down to > sleep” > -- > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l >