MDDM Prologue: Transitions & Transformations

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_The Crying of Lot 49_ ends with an auctioneer who is named after a common
order of birds apparently about to cry a revelation.

passerine adj. 1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Passeriformes, an
order of birds characterised by the perching habit: includes larks, finches,
crows, thrushes, starlings, etc 2. any bird belonging to the order
Passeriformes [C18: from Latin *passer* sparrow]

_Vineland_ opens with the main character waking from a dream of birds and
lost messages.

_Gravity's Rainbow_ ends with the apocalyptic rocket's flight perilously
suspended above the reader's head, having traced an arc across space and
time and history and hundreds of close-writ pages.

_Mason & Dixon_ opens:

"Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of
Cousins ... "

These slightly-skewed continuations of one novel into another appear to be
deliberate. As if a pattern emerge ...

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