COL49 - Chap 2: Strip Botticelli, leprechaun's, etc.

[rich]

it is absolutely amazing how many new things are discovered when
re-reading this book
or maybe i'm just forgetting what I learned

On 5/14/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Wow, that's a great find, Janos.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Germany
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> Metzger Post
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> The Metzger Post is credited to be perhaps the first international post of
> the Middle Ages[1] The guild of butchers (German: Metzger) organized courier
> mail services with horses; when the mail arrived they used a horn to
> announce it and thus created a commonly recognized emblem for postal
> services. The Metzger Post was established in the twelfth century and
> survived until 1637, when Thurn and Taxis's monopoly took over.[1]
>
> http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/86433/Butcher-Post
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> LK
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
>>Sent: May 14, 2009 4:30 PM
>>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: COL49 - Chap 2: Strip Botticelli, leprechaun's, etc.
>>
>>He's the portal to the new world Oedipa's about to enter, guarding the
>>hidden treasure therein.
>>
>>Or the precursor of the Tristero System as a world-organizing principle.
>>Metzgerpost was an obscure real-life alternative and (erased possible)
>>competition for the Thurn und Taxis-dominated imperial postal service.
>>
>>See this, e.g.
>>http://www.sammlerstube.net/aliashistorisches/83-die-metzgerpost-in-wuerttemberg.html
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