MDDM Ch. 78 Longitude Tables

[Dave Monroe]

A.greed, and here's to hoping there'll be no paucity
of discussion to follow.  I'm actually sad to come to
the end of Mason & Dixon, a feeling I don't (or, at
any rate, no longer) get from the other novels. 
Separation anxiety, perhaps, but ... but less, wow,
what provoked that? and all those (me)lingering
enigmas than, damn, novel's over, protagonists both
dead, I'll really miss those guys ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure that I read the scene as clear-cut as
> that...
>
> There's a lot in the chapter which leads up to this
> sudden outburst ...
> 
> I suspect there might be a little bit more to this
> last chapter, and Mason's death-bed vision of "a
> great single Engine, the size of a Continent"
> (772.17), than a logarithmick solution to the
> problem of the Longitude.

Then again, there are those enigmas as well.  Let's
take soem time to savor this one, shall we?  We shall ...

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