MDMD Dust Cover

[David Morris]

Here's another question about the MD cover:  I seem to remember the cashier 
at the bookstore showing me something like a watermark on the cover, but I 
can't find it now.  I think someone here mentioned something about a 
"disappearing ink" feature to the cover.  Can someone fill in my blanks?

David Morris

>From: RuudSaurins at aol.com
>
>About that Ampersand....
>      Someone had posted some time ago that evidently a great deal of 
>forethought had gone into the design of the novel's dust cover; the "-son" 
>and "-xon" with the prominently displayed ampersand.  It occurs to me that 
>Pynchon may wish to evoke a theme of "products" of "connection".  Mason 
>_and_ Dixon "produce" a line that goes on to symbolize/represent more than 
>the individuals themselves.  Man and woman "connect" to produce offspring; 
>i.e. Pynchon's recent fatherhood.  Stated another way; what is it that 
>happens when things connect, or are joined together.
>                          Similarly, just a thought,
>                          Ruud




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