BEg2 chapter 2

[Michael Bailey]

Eric Outfield, Stuyvesant genius - Stuyvesant being a magnet high school in
NYC (Battery Park City, moved from the East Village in 1992)


666 referring to Gabriel Ice.
Even in the computer age, lots of people still talk in these terms.


That Crown Royal Shirley Temple with a grenadine chaser sounds kind of good.
I’ll let you know.
I didn’t see it skimming through that “every drink in Pynchon” blog.
https://drunkpynchon.com
I think he might have missed it.


Perejil Massacre - mentioned as not being prominent in the travel brochures
for the Haiti-Dominican Republic borderline cruise.

Great poem by Rita Dove about that
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43355/parsley

Like shibboleth in the Bible, they slaughtered people based on
pronunciation. Horrible!