Reading out of place

James Kyllo jkyllo at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 12:00:34 CDT 2006


Are there many pubs at all named after writers? (Other than
Shakespeare).  One local here was called the George Orwell for a
while.. but it looked more like 1984 the year than the book.  Will
people somewhere one day be able to slip out for a swift half at the
Thomas Pynchon?


On 9/3/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't imagine that a pub named after Charles Dickens would be much fun.
>
> Dark and dingy and filled with coal smoke? Probably.
>
> Fun? Not likely, except maybe at Christmas.
>
>

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