Misc. on Henry Adams and maybe TRP...

[Mark Kohut]

I was at an outdoor reading room during yesterday's beautiful afternoon.
There were L of A. copies of Henry Adams' History of the United states.

Now, we all know that Henry Adams' "Education" permeated OBAs mind back in the day and deeply influenced him. Premise: I am going to suggest that such a thorough reader/writer/thinker as OBA would have read--at least read into--other major work of writers whom he felt deeply. With that assumption, Pynchon may have read---and been influenced---by this major work of American history.

So, Kute Korrespondences, inevitable because of the nature of obs and reality? 
OR, influences of some kind?

Adams writes at length of the postal service throughout America in 1800....
3 weeks Philly to Nashville, three times a week....over 900 'routes" within the States....which he seems to think does not raise enough money for all the service.......

He loves waterways and travel via them....He writes of 'the largest frigate
in the US Navy, the 'line-of-battleship-in-disguise'" !

He writes "the Saxon farmer of the 8th Century enjoyed most of the comforts known to Saxon farmers of the 18th C."...."the eorls and ceorls of Olf and Ecqbert could not read or write.....yet [their lives as lived] 
were "not improved by time" to the 18th Century....

You be the judge, and comments welcomed.
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Also, learned elsewhere....in "Back to the Future 3", the time travelling protagonists encounter a family named Tannen, including "Mad Dog" Tannen 
[who loses it when called 'mad Dog']..................