I'm new (post horn)

[Mail Delivery Subsystem by way of lstark@mail.slc.edu Litza Stark]

>> I noticed that the muted post horn and WASTE are used a lot on one
>> of the Pynchon pages, are these things used in his other books?  Other
>> than what they meant in the story, why are they so used by Pynchon fans?

>Neither the muted horn nor the WASTE acronym appear again: a number
>of characters from _Lot 49_ do reappear in other works, however.
>Speaking personally, I used to write WASTE and DEATH and draw
>posthorns on toilet walls many years ago because I got a kick out of
>knowing that they'd perplex the hell out of nearly everyone who saw
>one, except for a special few, members of a secret fraternity or
>sorority if you like, who'd read the book (actually, I first
>encountered the Horn in the toilets at the English Dept at Natal
>University a year before I read _Lot 49_).

I just  had to tell someone who'd understand...  Last night I noticed the
muted post horn & "W.A.S.T.E." on the front door of my dorm.  It's fun to
know that previous residents have been fellow Pynchonites.

I'm also new to the list, recently joined so that I could participate in
the group read.  I'm a first-year student at Sarah Lawrence College, and I
may actually be doing an independent project about GR this semester,
possibly even incorporating something about the GR GR.  (I've also got my
psychology professor intrigued by this manner of reading, and she wants to
try it with her classes...)

Litza Stark
lstark at mail.slc.edu