Conan Doyle/Pynchon

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

 Paul di Filippo writes (re: Conan Doyle's "Lot 249"), 
"Chances P. once saw this story and remembered the title:
approaching 100%.  Chances he took anything from it:  aproaching
0%."

On the other hand, CD in his later years took to spiritualism and the
contacting of ghosts (leading to a famous encounter with ghost-debunker
Harry Houdini).  Reincarnation, anyone?

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN