GRGR 1:5- "...laminar and gently singing"

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 29/11/2005 Michael Bailey wrote:

> the name of the pub, Snoxall's, is the name of a Bantu dictionary that
> came out in 1967 http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/nigecong.html
> the Snoxall's is about halfway down the page.

It seems it's also the name of a parish in England, and a reasonably  
common family name:

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/david.snoxhill/Family%20History/ 
PARISH%20RECORDS%20Births.htm

The Alpha Index at the HyperArts site might help with the disentangling  
of characters, places, names etc:

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/index.html

best