Symbiosis or S&M Double Stuff

[Terrance]

Perhaps it's all  theater. 

Several critics have written articles on Pynchon's doubles. Mason's
paranoid speculations about what his double may be agreeing to behind
his back is not as far fetched as it sounds.  

I have to agree with Jbor, it seems that our  Dixon and Mason are being
tested. And what is being tested? I do believe it is their loyalty. I'm
not so sure about what Bandwraith is talking about, but I think fidelity
might be at play in chapter 27. 


Fidelity
The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound
or image of its input signal.

Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances. 2. Exact
correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event;
accuracy.

No static at all, F---M-

Again, I agree that Lear is good place to turn and Moby-Dick (which of
course begs, borrows, and steals) from Lear. While I'm thinking about
Shakespeare and Melville, I seem to recall that Jbor also mentioned the
navel of the ship. That navel is what Black Pip sees. Anyway, I was also
thinking that Dixon and Mason may have smoked out Franklin's game and
are in fact  playing a bit of a game with the eminent Philadelphian. 


"We've had an adventure or two, you see."  M&D.270

This sounds to me like, you can't pull the wool over our eyes so easily
because we've been around the block. In fact, coming into the city of
Philadelphia, Mason and Dixon are experienced men, they have known
strange foods, times (Clocks), religions and exotic lands, even
slaves.   

Isn't it possible to read Lewis as a invention of Mr. Dixon? Maybe that
useful substance Mr. Dixon has been sipping has smartened  his already
street smartened mind? Well, anyway, it seems that Franklin texts their
fidelity and they pass. 

I also suspect that the Washington meeting is staged. A good portion of
this novel takes place on stage. In fact, this is true of the novels V,
GR, VL, CL49. 

It is a tale told by a broken remebrancer
full of sounds and fury
signifying america.