Voltaire quote in Mason and Dixon

[Dave Monroe]

I do rather like this, however.  See, e.g., ...

Miller Frank, Felicia.  The Mechanical Song:
   Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-
   Century French Narrative.  Stanford, CA: Stanford
   UP, 1995.

Poizat, Michel.  The Angel's Cry: Beyond the
   Pleasure Principle in Opera.  Trans. Arthur
   Denner, Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65282&sort=date

--- sZ <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> Pynchon's variant reads something like:
> 
> Le More is probably a reference to French love
> (l'amour), and the Pynchonian variation on the
> quote attributed to Voltaire might be:
> 
> "Without the voice of Love and the fabricated duck
> of Vaucanson, there is nothing you can do to
> remember the glory of France."


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