Tyburn Riddle.

[Tiarnan O'Corrain]

An Instance of the Fingerpost?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Ryckx [mailto:michel.ryckx at freebel.net]
> Sent: 19 October 2001 10:19
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: NP: Tyburn Riddle.
> 
> 
> Quite a while since we had a riddle on the list.  From which book is
> this a quotation?
> 
> "[. . .] but Kate insisted she herself would enteratin him  -- the
> Strumpet -- and I reckon  'tis with him that she elop'd.  But 
> fear not,
> we'll see the Strumpet hang'd, I warrant.   O what Satisfaction 'twill
> be to hear the Snap of her foolish Neck and see her swing at Tyburn."
> 
> The book did appear before 1997.
> 
> Michel.
>