On This Cinco de Mayo M&D SPOILER

[Pierre-Yves Petillon]

***MASON & DIXON SPOILER *****
















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>Date:   Mon, 5 May 1997 15:44:32 -0500
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>Subject: On This Cinco (hol) de Mayo
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> In 1760, Earl Ferrers, the last British peer to be executed, was
> hanged in London for murdering his steward.


      *****  Shouldn't?  the full Pynchon-list version have read: and
Charles Mason attended the hanging at Tyburn and little Florinda sang this
ballad, in a pleasant Alto

        Twas the Fifth Day of May, in
        The Year of our Lord, Seven-
        -Teen hundred sixty and zero,
        That the brave Lord Ferrers
        und so weiter....
                                thus spoiling p. 109


>
> In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and conqueror of much
> of Europe, died a British prisoner on the island of St. Helena.

        Shouldn't  the full Pynchon  version have read: yes, on the very
self-same island of St Helena where Charles Mason got such an awful
Exposure to the Wind (which is virtually the voices of the Planet, alle
zusammen...Yes, the very self-same Napoleon whose Awful Nativity (On the
15th of August 1769, in Corsica, you know, the Island with that Upyours
Finger Shape) is so Awfully Heralded by that Kirghiz Light in theSsky of
Ireland that summer of 1769: And there. In Leo, bright-man'd, lo, it came.
It came ahead. And 'twould be but Prelude to the Finger of Corsica     ...
as once beneath a star an Infant that must, again, re-make the World

                ** thus spoiling M&D p. 726