not to distract from the swirling controversies

[Craig Clark]

"Aaron Yeater" <AYEATER at ksgrsch.harvard.edu> asks:

> But a friend of mine made a small discovery last night--Inverarity, 
> the last name of the missing ex-hubby in CoL49, is also the name of a 
> scotch from town in Scotland called "Inverary" (sp?).  Any ideas on 
> a) if this is the source and b) if so, why?

I always assumed it had to do with "inverse rarities", which is 
philatelese for what we foax would call "forged postage stamps"...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"