M&D Saturday night in Delaware

[Thomas Eckhardt]

>> As a poor substitute, I brought up the subject of
>> the novel with the "public historian."
>>
>> "I don't have time for (snort) historical novel. I had 3000
>> pages of research. Besides I was told that Mason and Dixon
>> were portrayed as gay. Who needs that."
>
>Youch. Besides the underlying homophobia/vilification of this statement from
>an apparently educated person, where in the text is that *ever* suggested?

Cherrycoke states that Mason at some point, "out of metropolitan Control",
is beginning to feel more than just comradeship for his partner. This is
page 697. The audience comments on p. 698: "Oh, please Wicks spare us, far
too romantick really." 
Thomas

			
                   		
		"I've been chasing ghosts and I don't like it
		 I wish somebody would show me where to draw the line"

								John Cale