Mediaeval post horn

[Ya Sam]

Thanks a lot, Charles!

You folks seem to know everything!


>From: "Charles Albert" <cfalbert at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Mediaeval post horn
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:44:07 -0500
>
>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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