Query re M&D (was M+D) -- p. 340

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Wed May 14 15:49:05 CDT 1997


> From: Alan Westrope <awestrop at crl.com>
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> On Tue, 13 May 1997 10:19:31, Richard W. Ahrens wrote:
> >Note:  M+D Spoiler, Pages 296-555	
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> Maybe someone with access to Mason's journal will be able to answer
> this; I just have bits and pieces from secondary sources.  It's hard
> to imagine an error this big going unnoticed by TRP and his editors
> for 20 years, but such things have happened.  I can see the headline:
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>                 CARTOGRAPHIC BONER COSTS PYNCHON NOBEL
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LOL!  This is an interesting thread.  Makes me think of what Nabokov had to
say about the weird geography of Don Quixote.  That, no doubt about it,
it's a fantasy world....

davemarc



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