MDMD (6)----p195,196 Asiatick Pygmies

[Doug Millison]

At 10:26 AM 8/18/97, David Casseres wrote:
>And it seems that tall tales, with much ambiguity as to the
>degree to which they fool the audience, are a recurring motif in Mason &
>Dixon.

That's an interesting observation, given the place the tall tale holds in
American cultural history -- Pecos Bill, etc., and the way Pynchon seems to
be folding so many of his wide-ranging, international, historical
era-crossing in a novel that focuses so closely on America.

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