Horst

[Joseph Tracy]

It could also imply something solid between emptier , more faulty  terrain. Horst is addicted to the comforts of ice cream and cheesy TV so is block headed or simple in a certain sense, but he has a contempaltive side, comfortable in barren western landscapes, able to see past the noise to the the actual future of commodities, noticing the odd market action related to 9-11. He also provides emotional support and stability and time to their sons, sensitive enought to connect to their world.

A bartender is always the middle ground. This one nows his stuff, nothing requested he doesn’t know how to make.

> On Jan 11, 2022, at 3:59 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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...
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:16 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto: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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