Thurn & Taxis

[charles f albert]

I urge those with sufficient interest to dig up Pynchon's source, Alvin 
Harlow's Old Post Bags....

Paradoxically, you would have the best chance of finding it at a local 
library, as opposed to a university one..


Well worth the effort.....


love,
cfa




At 03:39 AM 3/19/2005, you wrote:
>an explanation of the name:
>
>"The tower (Italian: torre) became Thurn, the badger (Italian: tasso) became
>the name Taxis."
>http://www.thurnundtaxis.de/frs_home.html
>
>
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