MDMD4: Those Damnable Whig Coffee-Houses

[monroe at mpm.edu]

"'Damme, Sir,-- a Book?  Close it up immediately.'
   "''Tis the Holy Bible, Sir.'
   "'No matter, 'tis Print,-- Print causes Civil Unrest,-- Civil Unrest in 
any Ship at Sea is intolerable.  Coffee as well.  Where are newspapers 
found?  In those damnable Whig Coffee-Houses.  Eh?  A Potion stimulating 
rebellion and immoderate desires.'"  (M&D, Ch. 6, p. 48)

"freshly infus'd Coffee flows ev'ryplace, borne about thro' Rooms front and 
back" (M&D, Ch. 1, p. 6)


THE INTERNET IN A CUP
DECEMBER 18TH 2003

The Economist

Coffee fuelled the information exchanges of the 17th and 18th centuries

http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2281736

http://www.uwm.edu/~wash/302coffee.htm


And see as well, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=61007

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=61008

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