hi!

[Dave Monroe]

We try.  And that's just the stuff I could remember
and find quickly, else there wouldn't be so much,
well, me in there.  But here's one of mine in a
simialr vein that I couldn't find before ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=61021&sort=date

Why the archive search function couldn't find
"Schivelbusch" is beyond me, but ...

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang.  Tastes of Paradise:
   A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and
   Intoxicants.  Trans. David Jacobson.
   New York: Pantheon, 1992 [1980]. 

And I never did deploy this here, but ...

Mintz, Sidney.  Sweetness and Power:
   The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
   New York: Viking, 1985.

See M&D, p. 329, about sugar being ""bought ... with
the lives of African slaves, untallied black lives
broken upon the greedy engines of the Barbadoes." 
And, again, do check the archives.  But I've rarely
seen a question go unanswered or a comment go
uncommented on in some way or another here, so ...

--- Eleonora Lacorte <ailinaa at libero.it> wrote:
> Il giorno 28-05-2002 8:48, Dave Monroe,
> davidmmonroe at yahoo.com ha scritto:
> 
> Really....THANKS!!!!!
> that's why I always say fighting is never in vain!
> All the links you sent me are about things I was
> working on, isn't it great?!
> Thanks
> proudly keeping on fighting....
> Eleonora

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