MDMD(4) p.123 addendum to small re-write

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

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>Also, I think the image of  *the clocks unspoken inward desire
>to follow the beating of the Sea*  is one that goes to the very 
>heart of "Mason & Dixon," the very heart of what Pynchon
>is trying---not what he is 'trying to say', for Pynchon is
>in a Heideggerian sense, trying to "let Being be"----to allow
>to unfold in his work. 
>
adding to this point, he accomplishes his  "letting Being be" 
precisely by structuing a scene in which he forces Being to
do what, in the Ordinary Universe, it will not--- having two
clocks carry on a conversation.

A stab at truth and a lie, the magic of fiction.
Eric Alan Weinstein
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk