more on M&D

[hb]

Here's a paragraph by Henry Holt & Co. on _Mason & Dixon_, probly gonna be
on the back of the novel:

        "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 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."

voila

also....ya'll might wanna check out where I found this...
        there are two articles on it from Washington Post and the NY Observer.
        also a key to a tour of the Mason-Dixon Line...
               http://www.hyperarts.com/mason-dixon/mason-dixon.html

        and another with some article I aint read yet, 
                http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/pynchons-next-novel.html
        this one traces Pynchon's family line or sumthin, like i said, aint
read it yet....................................................................

to all a good night
or good morning.

hudson