C of L49 Thurn and Taxis and forgeries

[Mark Kohut]

P. 96--97. Lots to look up here on the wiki and in the Companion, say, but I'm flagging...
We know T & T was real.....takes a 'dominant' mainstream mail delivery service back to 1300
in Europe....to somewhere around when the Feudal Middle Ages were ending and becoming,
ah, Europe, I guess. 

That the Tristero can as if to  "taunt'---to mute--- the T & T service....can forge right on its stamps...[probably a nod here to that masterpiece of forgeries, The Recognitions, yes?]....

So, the Tristero exists--and knows it exists---as a counterstatement. (As a smart older guy once said
to me about (most) hippies: they exist BECAUSE of the dominant culture. He meant this about hippies, in a very Pynchonian way, in both good and bad ways.)

But, say more....