meat

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Did anyone cover the 

Metzger - Butcher - Mail connection?

love,
cfa


From:           	"Peter Fellows-McCully" <pfm at anam.com>
To:             	<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject:        	RE: 24 July again.
Date sent:      	Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:42:39 +0100


The writer John Aubrey, who lived from 1626 to 1697, was an 
expert on such
matters. Aubrey is best remembered for his whimsical biographies 
that tell
us much of what we know today about Milton, Shakespeare and 
other well-known
people of that time. Of the latter, for example, he wrote: "His father 
was a
butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours 
that when
he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, and when he killed a 
calf he
would do it in high style and make a speech."