Pynchon? I'd Like to Ogham and Kissham! (M&D, p. 600)

[Joe Varo]

At 11:42 AM 6/27/97 -0400, Sherwood, Harrison wrote:

>More years ago than I care to enumerate I came across a book written in
>1976 by a Harvard fella (oh, then it _must_ be true!) named Barry Fell,
>called _America B.C._ In it he presents an occasionally very
>compelling--and occasionally utterly wacky--argument that America was
>routinely visited in ancient times by Celtiberians, Libyans, and
>Egyptians. As evidence he submits a rather bewilderingly (and
>suspiciously?) large array of paleographic inscriptions, archeological
>finds, and lexicological similarities between ancient European and
>African languages and Amerindian ones. 

Hey! I know this book.  In fact I've got a copy of it lying around the
house here somewhere.  I had to buy the book for a college course (more
years ago than I, too, care to enumerate).  It was some dippy 1 credit-hour
course I took for no other reason than the course name sounded intriguing:
The Future As History.  If I recall, it was pretty much a waste of 1 credit.

Joe