Anachronisms in M&D--spoilers?

[Basileios Drolias]

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Maximus Clarke wrote:

> I begin to suspect that one reason TRP chose the framing device he did
> was to allow Cherrycoke to throw in references to interesting 18th-c.
> persons and ideas who post-dated the actual drawing of the Line.
> 
> And of course Pynchon is writing the story that Cherrycoke is telling about
> M & D, so we get some fun 20th-c. references too.  How meta.


my favourite bizzare anachronistic reference is in page 200 when Mason says:

"Kiss me right now sweetheart"

any astronomers out there?

basil