MDMD2: Complementarities ...

[Dave Monroe]

Note, by the way, the several complementarities (a la
Beckett's Vladimir and Estragon? amongst others ...)
betwixt Mason and Dixon that Pynchon has already
either emphasized from the historical record or
inscribed perhaps on his own: Grain vs. Grape (pp.
17-18); provincial vs. metropolitian (p. 13);
autodidact vs. academician (ibid.); naive vs. cynical
(ibid.); Northern vs. Southern (p. 15); rustic vs.
mannered (pp. 15-6); tall vs. short, or, at least,
less tall (p. 16); flamboyant vs. staid, "a red coat
of military cut, with brocade and silver buttons, and
a matching red three-corner'd Hat with some gaudy
North-Road Cockade stuck in it" (p. 16) vs. "Mason's
nearly invisible Turn-out, all in Snuffs and Buffs and
Grays" (p. 17).   And so forth.  Okay, back to ...

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