MD3PAD 289-291

[Toby G Levy]

        Chapter 29 begins on page 289. Mason goes to visit the Veery
brothers (Cosmo and Damian), professional effigy makers that have have a
shop on the edge of Philadelphia.

vw#68: shambles - a building where animals are butchered.

        Why does Mason go there? Pynchon writes it is Mason's "unabating
Search after the Grisly," but that really doesn't explain it.

        Mason and Dixon in the course of tavern hopping find secret
societies meeting in the back room  of every place they visit.  They
seem fairly tame.  The people they meet in the taverns decide that Mason
must be a member of the Masons by virtue of his name.

        In one back room, Mason comes upon a roomful of effigies of the
Boundary Line commissioners. In a later meeting, on December 1st, Mason
will look at the real life Commissioners and realize who the effigies
were meant to represent.

Toby