(Fwd) Re: Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

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From:     Self <calbert>
To: "Todd Meigs" <tmeigs at rt66.com>
Subject: Re: Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:00:58


> I think the stuff people are "chewing" on now is leading us is circles.  I,
> too, am very intrigued to see what you have to say about Pynchon's TEXTS,
> which is the reason I am on this list in the first place.  Roll out the
> specifics, and then let the games begin.
> TM

I'll take that. Pynch f.s up on page 272. Describing the portraits of 
swedes he lists the names "Oxenstjerna, Gyllenstjerna, Gyllenborg".
Got no beef with the last one, but those two others should have an 
"a"  with like a double umlaut  instead of the the "e" in "stjerna" 
(star). Any idiot would know THAT!

....or is he using some kind of dated convention.... perhaps no 
double um's available in that font?
cfa, anxiously awaiting the heated debate