M&D Q.

[J. Lawshe]

Thanks Dave and Doug:

The article to which I was referring appears below:

Copyright 1978 Newsweek

                                    Newsweek

                     August 7, 1978, UNITED STATES EDITION

SECTION: PERISCOPE; Pg. 17

LENGTH: 97 words

HEADLINE: AFTER THE RAINBOW

BYLINE: BILL ROEDER with bureau reports

BODY:

   Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author whose last book was "Gravity's
Rainbow" in 1973, has two novels in the works.  One is said to be a
science-fiction thriller inspired by Pynchon's passion for "Mothra" and
other Japanese horror movies.  The other book involves the Mason-Dixon line, and Pynchon
is now in England looking into the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the
British surveyors who established the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary in
the eighteenth century.  As part of his previous research, Pynchon walked the
233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line.



Jeff Lawshe

Department of English, Box 354330
jlawshe at u.washington.edu