lift that tome

[Linda Highland]

Spy magazine mentions M&D in a short called Excellence by the Pound, in
which an alleged lifelong bodybuilder judges books by their weight......
"Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Henry Holt
2 lb 5.7 ounces
One would have to be a real "gravity rambo" to heft this idea-filled
monolith without "crying a lot for  quinine"-derived aspirin as you buy
a plot of land in popped-"Veinland"! It's hea-"V", baby!  The gallery
proofs hit this reviewer's study wall so emphatically that had him
reaching for the spackle gun.  Genius!"


It really isn't one of their better issues....