Habitual morning cup

[Mark Kohut]

I have always thought coffee too but only seeing maybe half of what alice writes 
here...

And, I know less about English drinking habits than about vampire movies and 
even less
about English ways of referring to their drinking habits but wouldn't one say 
"habitual morning tea"?
Since tea is not so single-phrasedly referred to as 'cup-of-tea' as is 
"cup-of-coffee"?  There is/was "spot
of-tea" and lotsa movies where the person says, they'll have 'tea'....



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, June 16, 2011 6:28:23 AM
Subject: Re: Habitual morning cup

I vote for coffee. Coffee has been described in the early chapters,
brewing in an urn and so forth. Where are we? Well, that is a good
questions. We are in a fictional landscape, a theater and a theatre of
war that the American author, though he's reading London Newspapers,
infuses with America. Here the office and lab are fictional and, just
as the  characters are invested with several historical and fictional
figures, the landscapes or settings are also made up of several time
spaces. So, the white visitation, a place that reads right out of the
American Gothic and UFA influenced Film here, has coffee in the
morning.  The flask belongs to the pavlovian, Pointsman. Pavlov
allusion. Pavlov used such a flask with seeds in it. Jeez, it is a bit
frightening to "disagree" with Prof Kraft...so maybe I'm just dead
wrong.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well, they do drink coffee over there.  But more interestingly, is the
> Erlenmeyer  flask used for this purpose?  Being a statistician, Roger Mexico
> can't be using it for much else.
>
>> From: krafftjm at muohio.edu
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:25:52 -0400
>> Subject: RE: Habitual morning cup
>>
>> Uh, remember where we are: isn't tea more likely than coffee?
>>
>> jmk
>