MD3PAD 484-486

[Toby G Levy]

        Chapter 50 begins on page 484.

        As the line moves westward, they cross many roads running north
and south. Mason and Dixon agree that when they come to a north-south
road, they will each take a direction and travel several miles and the
one who does not find a tavern will return and go in the other direction
until they meet up at a tavern.

        Once they each wound up in separate taverns, waiting in vain for
the other to arrive. Other times they find terrible inns or no inns at
all. Finally they come to what appears to be the edge of civilization,
the mountain forrest, and on that day the sun shone with a special
brilliance.

        On one of their north-south forays, Dixon comes across an inn
run by a kabbalistic sect called Rabbi of Prague, which greets him with
the star trek salute and tall him "Live long and prosper."  They tell
him of a gigantic golem built by an Indian tribe that was thought to be
one of the lost tribes of Israel.  They have released the golem to live
in the forrest. Dixon is skeptical.

        One person tells Dixon that the only words the golem knows are
"Eyeh asher eyeh" which a man resembling Popeye translates to "I am that
which I am." Dixon recalls that these were the words God said to Moses.

        They tell Dixon that Christ as a child made golems.

        Dixon asks if the idea of invisibility was that as long as the
golem kept moving it was invisible, and this generated much heated
response.

Toby