Addendum

[davemarc]

The first Washington Post URL in my previous P-list posting is 

http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-04/27/066L-042797-idx.ht
ml

(It's possible that the "ml" in "html" was cut off.)

Also, today's NYTimes magazine offers the following nod to matters M&D on
page 15:

BIG TOM I.  Wednesday is the release date for "Mason & Dixon," the closely
guarded new novel by Thomas Pynchon.  2.  Bookstores are forbidden to
display it until then, but the novel's 119-word opening sentence has been
on the Internet for weeks. 3.  It begins "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs,
starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings. ..." 4.  The publisher, Henry Holt, says
this story of Mason and Dixon, the 18th-century British surveyors, features
"ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major
caffeine abuse." 5.  Pynchon-ophiles are celebrating their recluse's
bewitching prose at events like the "Open Mike Thomas Pynchon Imitator
Contest," tonight at KGB in New York.  "We're hoping he'll show," says
Denis Woychuk, KGB's principal owner.  "Maybe with a few drinks in him,
he'd tip his hand."

Who's this Mike Thomas Pynchon fellow?

davemarc