MDMD(0) : Opening Call For The Mass Discussion of Mason & Dixon

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 23 May 97, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

>Whatcheer Bonnie Lads and Lasses and Welcome One and All to . . .

>                THE MASS DISCUSSION OF MASON AND DIXON 
  [...]
>      Technique - [...] This is a much more markedly
>      Historickal Novel than its Predecessors and adopts a suitably
>      Historickal Tone. Is it also a Modern (or dare I invoke the Term
>      a Postmodern) Novel?

I have seen the Term "Protopostmodern" applied to _Don Quixote_ and
_Tristram Shandy_ -- though, I believe, 'twere more than Half in Jest,
the Coiner's Tongue being most firmly Emplanted in Cheek -- hence,
'twould seem the proper Term for this Novel is Neoprotopostmodern.

Comments on this Term's Hyphenation/Capitalization/Deconstruction shall
be Philtre'd to /dev/null.

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