Fw: "Bolivar cannot carry double."

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--- On Wed, 9/10/08, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

> From: bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com>
> Subject: "Bolivar cannot carry double."
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 9:04 PM
> Not unless he's got some of that Iceland Spar in his
> saddle bag...
> 
> Daniel Julius:
> 
> "I like your email handle"
> 
> Thanks. Here's your reward for the compliment. It's
> a little proto-steampunk from around the time of the
> opening of ATD, by another long lost cuz- O Henry:
> 
> http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Financial_skeptic/Reprints/roads_we_take.shtml
> 
> It's a five minute read. It plays on the symmetry
> between the myths of
> the wild west and the robber barons of wall street. Enjoy.