Re: Postal systems

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:01:55 GMT

The Lost Generation of David Gadbois returns, to reply to me:
> Pretty close, von Turn und Taxis, if memory serves. Named after
> one person, I think, not two... Didn't one of the "Illuminatus!"
> books feature this organisation in some unlikely role?

> If you haven't yet done so, rush out and read Pynchon's "The Crying of
> Lot 49."

That was the one! It was _awful_. :-/ (Gravity's Rainbow now languishes unread at the bottom of my pile, even _if_ Laurie Anderson liked it so much she wrote a rather good son about it.)

Slan,
Alex.

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