MDDM Ch. 71 Mr. Twiford's Seat

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: MDDM Ch. 71 Mr. Twiford's Seat


>    "The Story among Dixon's Descendsnts will be that
> Uncle Jeremiah wish'd to emigrate and settle here, and
> that his Partner did not,-- tho' in the Field-Book, as
> late as June 9, Mason is to be found rhapsodizing in
> writing about Mr. Twiford's seat upon Nanticoke, as he
> does thro'out the Book as to other Homes, other
> Rivers, or Towns upon them." (M&D, Ch. 71, p. 690)
>

continuing:

"Aye how pleasing in all ways. Yet address any of it too intently, and like
Dreams just at the Crepuscule, 'twill all vanish, unrecoverably."
"Shakespearean, correct?"
"Nay, Transcendence,-- 'twas but Masonick."
(690.24-27)

Who speaks?

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