CoL49 Group Reading

[J K Van Nort]

The Gould mausoleum link didn't go through last time:https://www.mausoleums.com/portfolio/gould-mausoleum/  

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    On Friday, May 10, 2024 at 11:35:45 AM EDT, J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:  
 
 For me, the images/memories have a pattern of sacred ending in profane. The slamming of a door links to initiation/rites of passage where the initiate has closed the door on the past, much as the door slamming represented the end of Oed’s relationship with Pierce. The bird flight is a release, while the Cornell library sunset represents a moment of shared sublime, where she and Pierce saw what no one else did. Music is sublime and sacred, and Bartok’s piece intended to evoke memories of national pride, pride in place, a sacred place that has been lost. Contrasting those is the teetering bust of Jay Gould, vulture capitalist, poised above their heads, waiting to come crashing down. The whitewash perhaps an attempt to make him less ghoulish? By the way, Gould is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. The map of the cemetery notes the location, but the mausoleum, a huge columned monstrosity, has no identification of who rests there. (Gould Mausoleum)

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Gould Mausoleum

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