ATDTDA (6) 'Fax
grladams at teleport.com
grladams at teleport.com
Mon Apr 2 18:53:36 CDT 2007
Maybe it's because rich people use family names as first names.
Original Message:
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From: Daniel Harper daniel_harper at earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:51:43 -0600
To: jasper.fidget at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: ATDTDA (6) 'Fax
On Monday 02 April 2007 16:04, Jasper wrote:
> Interesting, these names. The Vibe men can be shortened: 'Fax, 'Mont,
> 'Wood, 'Dale -- unlike the Traverse men: Webb, Frank, Reef, Kit.
> Polysyllabic = rich, monosyllabic = poor?
In my day, we was so poor we couldn't afford all those fancy polysyllables
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we had one phonic sound in our name, and that's the way we liked it!
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 23:26 +0300, Ya Sam wrote:
> > So Colfax Vibe is called 'Fax. Here is my crazy theory. When his dad to
> > test his naivete orders him to bring satchels with money to different
> > officials he never looks inside deliviring the 'message' exactly the way
> > it is, like a fax machine.
> >
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No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
--Daniel Harper
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