ATDTDA (17): wanted men's faces on penny postals (477.33)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I've got a host of pink tabs, strewn throughout my copy of AtD, for passages 
that touch upon COL49. But I've also noted revived characters from V., the whole 
Vineland correspondence, the the strange echoing of GR materials in London and a 
host of verbal anachronisms reminiscent of Mason and Dixon. Nothing terribly 
systematic however, save those pink tabs. Whereas, in COL49 there is an attempt 
to organize all these philatelic oddities into some singular conspiratorial monstosity,
in AtD all these anarchist modes of getting around without being snooped upon by 
government's all-seeing eye is just the way things happen to get done. Of course,
that "Conspiracy" might be Oedipa's projection. And ultimately: what are we to make 
of Lord Overlunch's stockbook of unhinged, perfectly centered Shambhala postage 
stamps?
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From: dedalus204 at comcast.net (Tim Strzechowski)
> [...] "A specialist's apparatus, the next step on into the twentieth century 
> from wanted men's faces on penny postals" (p. 477).
> 
> 
> List of people on stamps from the United States:
>  
> http://tinyurl.com/7umc3
>  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps
>  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp
>  
>  
> Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web
>  
> http://luftfamily.com/cgi-bin/newadditions.cgi
>  
>  
> cf. _The Crying of Lot 49_ -- Has anyone been following (or rather tracing) 
the 
> ways in which the various novels of TRP are alluded to in ATD?  
>