FR online review

[Ya Sam]

Wow. I mean that's of course a hell of a retrospection on my part, but how 
did you hit on that nice connection? Kudos.


>"... in order ... that business communications be
>accelerated and multiplied at least within the
>boundaries of the civilized world, we propose a
>projectile or cannonball express: an institution that,
>with suitably situated artillery stations placed
>within firing range of each other, would discharge,
>from mortars or howitzers, hollow shells, which have
>been stuffed full not of powder, but letters and
>packages, and which could very easily be observed in
>flight, and wherever they might fall, short of some
>morass, be retrieved ..."
>
>--Heinrich von Kleist, "Useful Inventions: Project for
>a Cannonball Postal System" (1810)
>
>Cf. ...
>
>"This is the new, and still most secret German bomb.
>    "'Incoming Mail.'" (GR, Pt. I, p. 6)
>
>"... an now Pirate knows where this morning's rocket
>landed, and why there was no explosion.  Incoming
>mail, indeed."  (GR, Pt. I, p. 11)
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0101&msg=52671
>
>
>
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