Mediaeval post horn

[Charles Albert]

I guess I'll have to put some PRESIDENTE on ice........



Tostone?



love,
cfa

On 1/18/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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