Horst

[Mark Kohut]

And simply, he is a blockhead; they are blockheads, not to overlook the
literal.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:28 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> horst
> /hôrst/
>
> noun
>
>    - 1.a raised elongated block of the earth's crust lying between two
>    faults.   I think I can feel some ways TRP might like this name.
>    LYING BETWEEN TWO FAULTS.....in all the definitions one way or
>    another......LOL.....
>    A block existing between two strains.......the opposite of Iceland
>    Spar in some associational way, I dare to leap....
>    It is the block in the excluded middle, again, so to speak very
>    associationally...
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:16 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> Just an odd finding from preparing a summary for the week 7 Reddit read
>> of ATD. Horst in ATD is the name of the bartender at the Ball in Hand bar
>> on the seedy edges of the campus of Candlebrow U, one of the most surreal
>> spaces in Pynchon world. Will be back to talk about BE Ch 12 as soon as
>> this task is done.
>>
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>