AtD seal translated

[Ya Sam]

Judging by the symbols, the two legends on the seal (above and below) are 
identical to my eye, so we could impose the iceland spar doubling thing 
here, if we wish. As for my 'fault', well, I had though it would be 
something even more prosaic, like 'The State of Tibet' or something, and to 
discover some 'great truth' never crossed my mind, although nowadays it's 
quite possible to make a stylised stamp or seal, in which it would writteb, 
say, 'Against the Day' in Tibetan or the transcription of 'Thomas Pynchon' 
into these characters, like they offer you to transcribe your name into 
Arabic letters in some touristy places. That was pure sportsmanship on my 
part, I just wanted to know what's there. BTW, I contacted something like 5 
Tibet Culture organisations, but received only one response so far. What 
really is interesting, that among all the stamps, seals, coins, etc. we 
still haven't found a 100% identical image. May be some kind of antiquarian 
curiosity from Pynchon's private collection, who knows. A letter sent by 
Pynchon to his readers stamped by a Tibetan seal...


>From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>To: takoitov at hotmail.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: AtD seal translated
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:58:20 +0000
>
>Fantastic stuff, Ya Sam. Well done. Not your fault that "it means ...... 
>Tibetan Government
>Chamber of Commerce"!
>
>I wonder what the writing on the old version of the seal, with the writing 
>all the way around, meant? Same? Different?
>
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