Lothrop?

[Al X]

This may have been discussed before. I don't have the luck or time to search 
through the archives. However, quite inadvertantly, I found myself at the 
Sleepy Hollow Memorial Graveyard in Massachusetts (home of the resting 
places of Emerson, Thoreau, etc.). More importantly, however, was 
Hawthorne's grave. As Pynchon's lineage is parodied in GR and a Pynchon is 
used in one of Hawthorne's stories, the large variety of tombstones bearing 
the name "Lothrop" revealed itself as a fairly prominent American dynasty. 
Anyone know if this is relevant.Is Pynchon mocking the poor and sinful 
Lothrops simply due to their residence as a neighbor of dead Hawthorne? 
Hmmm...Again, I may be slow, or, far more likely, and perhaps even more 
relevant, extremely paranoid.

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