ATDDTA(10):

[John BAILEY]

I read a few months back that marmots are the second-greatest killer of
humans (after the mosquito) - sounds extreme, but it's due to the fact
that all the great plagues of Europe were initially spread by marmots
from Mongolia, which is a nice and neat tie-in to later elements of AtD.
Don't know how that might tie in, but the plague link makes the falling
marmot seem awfully biblical.

A marmot is a groundhog in N. America, right? Maybe it's that
weather-forecasting fella making himself known.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Keith
Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 1:51 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: ATDDTA(10):

Did my subject line get censored? I noticed it is blank on the two
replies? Funny that a direct translation of the text would get snipped
somehow.

Anyway, another loose thought about the crash on the roof is that it was
an amulet from a demi-god like the one that created Venice.

Or some debris from the Inconvenience.

I just don't see a marmot being that big of a banger.

And why is Sloat phobic about bathing? Superstitious horror?

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