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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Monte:

>Of course, by my "offstage but central" principle, just as GR is the
>Holocaust and Cold War novel,   M&D *is* the Civil War novel, because
>slavery -- the dark twin of all the colonies' freedom and possibility, the
>North/South split clumsily compromised and finessed in the Constitution --
>was going to drive so much of US history.

Excellent point! Besides, you're probably absolutely right about the rumour 
of a Civil War novel being some sort of speculative spinoff from the early 
rumours of a Mason-Dixon novel. In fact, when Bill Roeder first mentioned 
the Mason-Dixon novel in his article "After the Rainbow" (Newsweek, 1978), 
the novel was tentatively titled "The Mason-Dixon Line" - emphasizing the 
line itself, rather than the characters who surveyed it. This would seem to 
support your theory.

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