...and then there's also (?!)(what do others think?) the possibility of "lot" referring to the character of Lot in the Bible, the only one to escape from Sodom, if I recall correctly...?! RF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20050821/53dd5d80/attachment.html>