MD vs GR death cage match

[The Great Quail]

I like Mason & Dixon better than Gravity's Rainbow, and I think it's 
a better book. It seems to me more focused, more poetic, more 
creative, and more *human.* I cried during M&D; I was surprised and 
enthralled in ways that GR didn't do for me -- despite my deep and 
abiding love for it. I would rank, as my favorites (and of course, 
they are all amazing!):

Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Crying of Lot 49
V.

--Quail
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"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each
event -- in the living act, the undoubted deed -- there, some unknown
but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from
behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!
How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?"
      --Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"