M&D reading supplies

[Alan Westrope]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dkipen at aol.com wrote:

>Just a dispatch from the mists of Lineland. If any of you are going as crazy
>waiting for the Book as I was for my review copy, might I suggest passing the
>time with Dava Sobel's "Longitude." I might be lost if I hadn't read it a
>while back, and I wish I'd read it even more recently. Any other supplemental
>reading suggestions out there?

Barth's _The Sot-Weed Factor_, a pretty decent ~800-page novel, may
provide some useful background on archaic terms like "'Sblood!" and
"swive," along with nautical practices such as "the code o' the sea"
and a bit of Maryland history.  I believe its time frame is about a
generation prior to M&D.

I do intend to plow through Sobel's book B/4 April 30.  Thankfully,
it's considerably less than 800 pages!  Thanks for the advice.

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