re Re: Mason and Dixon as Characters

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> BigBird:
> >Mason  [...]
> >Dixon [...]
> 
> That's good as far as it goes.  But the malign one is
> onto something (apart from the brain-dead M&D-bashing
> that this troll spools out each time M&D is mentioned
> here).  One of the strangest things about M&D is the
> way that Mason's and Dixon's seem to exchange
> personality characteristics from time to time in the
> novel -- as longtime friends, outside of novels, often
> do.

Pynchon's (ab)use of "doubles" could be read as a weakness or strength.
Zoyd and Van Meter, Prairie and Frenesi .... DL .... so on. 

In GR, VL, M&D, narrators and narrator-characters self-consciosly 
foregrounds this use of doubles.