For Dave Monroe, always for Dave, every Christmas Eve. Dave, someday i'll get to Milwaukee and sit in that seat. Keep resting in peace, heart eased.

[Laura Kelber]

I think of Dave often. He was the heart and soul of the P-list, and a
quirky, interesting guy. Rest in Peace, brother Dave.

Laura

On Sun, Dec 24, 2023, 11:00 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gone but not forgotten (requiescat in pace)
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 8:21 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Right back at ha, Erik!
> >
> > MT
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, December 24, 2023, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Now everyone...
> > >
> > > Merry Christmas!
> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2023, 22:56 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levies, suede
> jacket,
> > > > > sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk,
> > > Virginia.
> > > > > ......
> > > > >
> > > > > Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,
> > > > > Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.
> > > > > Neon signs of red and green
> > > > > Shine upon the friendly scene,
> > > > > Welcoming you in from off the sea.
> > > > > Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true:
> > > > > Nickel beers that sparkle like champagne,
> > > > > Barmaids who all love to screw,
> > > > > All of them reminding you
> > > > > It's Christmas Eve on old East Main.
> > > > >                                        ----V. Thomas Pynchon.
> > > > >
> > > > > A reminder of its anti-Puritanism: ...."too much unregulated joy"
> > > > >
> > > > > "What is Christmas, anyway? For those who don’t celebrate the birth
> > of
> > > > > Christ yet still trim a tree on December 25, it’s…well,
> complicated.
> > > > > Christmas is, after all, a specifically Christian holiday, albeit
> one
> > > > > briefly banned by the 17th-century Puritans (too much popery and
> > public
> > > > > drunkenness), and at which the neo-puritanically inclined and the
> > > > > chronically grinchy persist in looking askance (too much
> unregulated
> > > > > joy)."--Terry Teachout, WSJ yesterday, 5 years ago.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > You want to know something amazing about Christmas Eve in 1955,
> when
> > > > > Pynchon sets V ?
> > > > > It was the night that Sears & Roebuck published the Track Santa
> > hotline
> > > > in
> > > > > the paper to their store for PR purposes
> > > > > .....but there was a typo.
> > > > >
> > > > > The call went to NORAD Headquarters. Who played along.....
> > > > >
> > > > > V could have been set almost anytime in the 50's......PYNCHON knew,
> > we
> > > > > believe.
> > > > >
> > > > > As *Gravity's Rainbow* begins with "A screaming comes across the
> sky"
> > > > > .....one of the most famous beginnings ever.
> > > > >
> > > > > Always a cosmic background, even if hidden to be found out later in
> > > > V......
> > > > >
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> 
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
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> > > >
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