Mediaeval post horn

[Charles Albert]

Alvin Harlow - Old Post Bags

extremely rare, but a decent library system should be able to shake out a
copy for you...

you will want the chapter on Tasso....

Harlow writes beautifully...

worth the effort....

then you can come by the house and drink pilsner from my Thurn und Taxis
flutes.....

love,
cfa

On 1/17/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Most probably discussed before but...
>
> In this passage from Siegel's article (thank you you know who) Pynchon
> says
> that a post horn identical to that depicted in Lot 49 was a symbol of some
> kind of mediaeval post system. He even checked it in a library. So did
> anyone actually come across that mediaeval symbol as well as the postal
> organisation? I tried the google :) and didn't find anything.
>
>
> ""You know the w.a.s.t.e. horn in The Crying of Lot 49? The symbol of the
> secret message service? Every weirdo in the world is on my wave length.
> You
> cannot understand the kind of letters I get. Someone wrote to tell me that
> the
> very same horn was the symbol of a private mail system in medieval times.
> I
> checked it out at the library. It's true. But I made it up myself before
> the
> book
> was ever published, before I ever got that letter.""
>
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