"a hatband of Siberian tiger skin" [p. 789]

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/23/08, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> …Trying this to the p-list again, or if not maybe Dave will forward
>
> "a hatband of Siberian tiger skin" [p. 789]  Dylan's leopard skin pill-box hat?
>
> Also on the tiger-skin garment tip, the mighty Monkey King, Sun Wu Kung, kills a tiger and makes a garment from the tiger's skin, first clothes he's worn after being trapped under a mountain for 400 years after raising havoc in heaven, he's released by the monk Tripitaka on his way to get Buddhist scriptures in the classic Chinese novel, The Journey to the West (which I wrote about during the first MDMD).

Hey, Doug, howzabout a hand with, say, this "Chinese Turkestan railway
bonds" thing?  For example.  Much a working knowledge of Chinese--not
to mention China--would help with here ...

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