On the coffee motif in Pynchon's work.

[Mark Kohut]

President *THOMAS JEFFERSON*.

He wrote in an 1824 letter
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“the coffee bean, from its mild, and smooth, bitter, its essential oil &
the aroma that gives it is become the favorite beverage of the civilised
world. many attempts have been made to find substitutes for it trying
chiefly vegetable substances. they have succeeded in furnishing a bitter
but never the peculiar flavor of the bean.” Read the full letter here.
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