CoL49 (6) His Constant Theme

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "It may have been some vision of the continent-wide power structure
> Hinckart could have taken over, now momentarily weakened and
> tottering, that inspired Tristero to set up his own system. He seems
> to have been highly unstable, apt at any time to appear at a public
> function and begin a speech. His constant theme, disinheritance. The
> postal monopoly belonged to Ohain by right of conquest, and Ohain
> belonged to Tristero by right of blood. He styled himself El
> Desheredado, The Disinherited, and fashioned a livery of black for his
> followers, black to symbolize the only thing that truly belonged to
> them in their exile: the night. Soon he had added to his iconography
> the muted post horn and a dead badger with its four feet in the air
> (some said that the name Taxis came from the Italian tasso, badger,
> referring to hats of badger fur the early Bergamascan couriers wore).
> He began a sub rosa campaign of obstruction, terror and depredation
> along the Thurn and Taxis mail routes."
>
> http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/6/pynchon/lot6.htm

Sorry, Ch. 6, p. 132 ...