on M & D from an unknown blogger

[Mark Kohut]

Finishing Pynchon, the unrevealed remains so. The conspiracies within Mason & Dixon swirl throughout; British institutions, Jesuit missionaries, clandestine French travellers, holistic indigenous people, the lost ghosts of relationships themselves. And yet what is revealed remains unrevealed, the true conspiracies are held for the reader from the immediacy, they are the foundations of the story, the foundations upon which the societies in the story are built. Pynchon never hides this, but he never offers it either - like all true conspiracies, it functions on its constancy, its obviousness, its unsuspectability.