Voltaire quote in Mason and Dixon

[Dave Monroe]

Or, for that matter ...

Fulcher, Jane.  The Nation's Image: French Grand
   Opera as Politics and Politicized Art.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.

http://books.cambridge.org/0521529433.htm

isbn=0521327741
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?
--- 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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