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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net

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>Note as well, the Great Cohen in AtD.
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>--- Expletive Deleted <glennfuller at sbcglobal.net>
>wrote:
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>> Actually Robert E. Howard's  Conan wasn't the first 
>> to express that 
>> sentiment.
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>> To crush your enemies, and see them fall at your
>> feet - to take their horses and belongings, and to
>> hear the lamentation of their women. That is the
>> best life. -                                 
>>               --- 
>> Ghengis  Khan
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>That was noted by the Wikipedia, even.  Meanwhile ...
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>To the Editor:
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>In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts
>that I took the name "Genghis Cohen" from a novel of
>his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49.
>Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis
>Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the
>well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary
>really believes himself to be the only writer at
>present able to arrive at a play on words this
>trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps
>more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope
>he works it out.
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>Thomas Pynchon,
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>New York City.
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>http://web.archive.org/web/20000824131346/pynchonfiles.com/cohn.htm
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>http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cohen.html
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>http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/cl49/GengCo.html