H. Holt Promotion

[Craig Clark]

Stanley Kozikowski <skozikow at acad.bryant.edu> supplies us with the 
following:

> The catalogue blurb from HH readeth as followeth:
> 
> MASON &
> DIXON
> 
>   "Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the 
> British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between 
> Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line.  
> Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 
> eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, 
> ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major 
> caffeine abuse.  We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other 
> depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-romantic--from their first journey 
> together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, 
> through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, 
> on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe 
> and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented to them 
> by the Age of Reason."

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE? Ya see that, HAG ole buddy? The Pynch has 
been writting about our homeland, oops, I mean our geopolitical area 
of residence. (Yeah, I know you're from Namibia so you already got a 
look-in, but so what: Durban gets mentioned by name in _Gravity's 
Rainbow_...)

Wonder if the "If-it's-not-South-African-it-doesn't-deserve-a-place-
on-a-South-African-syllabus" crowd will decide that _M&D_ is worth a 
read...
 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"