Wakes
This morning’s New York Times reports the deaths of Nuremberg interrogator Richard W. Sonnenfeldt and of avant-garde novelist and Beckett scholar Raymond Federman.
Symbols from this journal on the dates of their deaths:
For connotations of the symbol appropriate to the name Sonnenfeldt, see the link to A Sunrise for Sunrise in the entry of Saturday, Oct. 10.
A quotation that appeared here on Wednesday, Oct. 7, seems relevant to Federman:
But I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. You are a poorjoist, unctuous to polise nopebobbies….
— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake