animal vegetable mineral magnetism and maps with pictures on 'em

[Dave Monroe]

And see as well, e.g., ...

Fara, Patricia.  An Entertainment for Angels:
   Electricity in the Enlightenment.
   Cambridge, UK: Icon, 2002. NY: Columbia UP, 2003.

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/publications.html

http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/book.cfm?isbn=1-84046-348-1

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231131488.HTM

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0609&msg=107024

Recalling ...

Franklin, Dr. Benjamin (1706-90)
266; American statesman, scientist, inventor and
writer; interrogating Mason & Dixon about their
connections, 268-69; as Poor Richard ("Let us go out
into the Nights Main Drama!"), 294-95; and the Paxton
Boys, 310; "out in the Thunder-Gusts" 394; 442; 463;
488; "Toy image of" 548; "American Prometheus" 565;
"success in London" 613; 656; 760;

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/f.html

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/franklin.html

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> That book (Patricia Fara, Sympathetic Attractions:
> Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolsim in
> Eighteenth-Century England (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
> UP, 1996) seems like it would be an interesting
> read, and be useful in a reread of M&D.

I was glad to get some use from it, at any rate.  Keep
in mind, y'all, I PAY for that stuff ...

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